[American in Israel]

Having read a 33rd Degree Masonry text on the proper rites to worship Lucifer the Morning Star, I find the outrage of the Masons at being called incompatible to Christianity to be, shall we say, very Islamic.

[flying Elvis]

Interesting considering Dr. Williams became an honorary druid last year.

[ppaul]

[H]e said that their beliefs were incompatible with Christianity

He's right.

[narses]

Hasn't the Catholic Church said as much regarding FreeMasonry?

[anniegetyourgun]

I had a relative (by marriage) who was 33rd degree Mason. Of course, he claimed to be a Christian, but contributed little to his church while contributing lavishly to the order. (See Matt. 6:21)

That relative is now deceased, but thankfully his pastor refused to perform a Masonic funeral. I can only hope that my relative saw and accepted the true Light of the world before he passed - rather than the so-called light promised in Masonic ritual.

[Tokhtamish]

How Episcopalian. How fundamentally gutless. Did Jesus give a damn about hurting the feelings of the scribes and Pharisees ? Did he apologize for the hurt caused by his 'insensitive' comments about 'vipers' and 'whited sepulchers' ?

Standing for Christ means standing for his truth and that means saying things that people aren't going to want to hear.

[strela]

Have any of these folks who believe that the local Masonic lodge is chock-full of devil worshipers looked at the back of a US one dollar bill lately? Spending and using currency that has mysterious symbols such as a pyramid, an "all-seeing eye", and mysterious Latin words must be some sort of evidence that they do not walk their talk. Either that, or just plain hypocrisy.

[P.O.E.]

Well, of course, this is just the sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker's cuss for the struggling artist. You excrement, you whining hypocritical toadies with your colour TV sets and your Tony Jacklin golf clubs and your bleeding masonic secret handshakes. You wouldn't let me join, would you, you blackballing bastards. Well I wouldn't become a Freemason now if you went down on your lousy stinking knees and begged me.

[Ff--150]

right here is answers to many questions you may or may not have, concerning the history of this land. I believe the father of this nation was also the Grand Wizard of the colonies prior our nation's birth. Maybe the war sixty years after his death was for more than tariffs...

[honway]

"I saw a code of Masonic legislation adapted to prostrate every principle of equal justice and to corrupt every sentiment of virtuous feeling in the soul of him who bound his allegiance to it.

"I saw the practice of common honesty, the kindness of Christian benevolence, even the abstinence of atrocious crimes; limited exclusively by lawless oaths and barbarous penalties, to the social relations between the Brotherhood and the Craft. I saw slander organize into a secret, widespread and affiliated agency....I saw self-invoked imprecations of throats cut from ear to ear, of hearts and vitals torn out and cast off and hung on spires. I saw wine drunk from a human skull with solemn invocation of all the sins of its owner upon the head of him who drank it."

President John Quincy Adams

[windcliff]

fyi

[Dengar01]

I find these secret societies creepy. I saw something about the Masons on the History Channel a while back it seems like a bizzare organization.

[Dajjal]

[TradicalRC]

Wow. 389 posts and not one mentions the freemasons overtaking the funeral procession of Pope Pius IX and throwing his body into the Tiber.

Until this one.

oops.