So, as a woman who is skeptical about Freemasonry, how do you suggest I find out more about it (good or bad) without reading books or talking to friends and relatives? All the information I've found from the Freemasons themselves is very vague and recommends talking to someone from The Fraternity to get more information. Yet members of The Fraternity are reluctant, and some even say prohibited, from speaking with me about The Craft.
"Behind the Lodge Door" by Paul A. Fisher
"Freemasonry, Mankind's Hidden Enemy" by Bro. Charles Madden O.F.M. Conv.
"Christianity and American Freemasonry" by William J. Whalen
The first two are available through TAN books and publishers and the third published by Our Sunday Visitor.
Perhaps patent has a few more..and I post with all due respect to him.
Well, I suggest you stay the heck away from it until they stop being so secretive, and until you can actually compare the whole organization to your faith to determine if it is compatible. It isn’t enough to compare the 3rd degree masons, you need to know about the whole picture.Anti-Masonic posts usually run from, the "I have a relative who is a Mason", or I read some book on Masonry which says that this about Masonry....."So, as a woman who is skeptical about Freemasonry, how do you suggest I find out more about it (good or bad) without reading books or talking to friends and relatives?
IMHO, I would stay skeptical, and stay away.
All the information I've found from the Freemasons themselves is very vague and recommends talking to someone from The Fraternity to get more information. Yet members of The Fraternity are reluctant, and some even say prohibited, from speaking with me about The Craft.This refusal to be clear should, in turn, make it crystal clear that you should stay away.
[from Cap'n Crunch]Perhaps patent has a few more..and I post with all due respect to him.I do encourage her to read the books, and yours are fine, but quite frankly it seems entirely unnecessary to me. In and of itself, the mere fact that they won’t talk about their Craft in clear terms is entirely sufficient to tell one that one should avoid them like the plague.
The truth loves light. Lies love the darkness. This very thread is all I think you need to know, to know enough to avoid them. Look at how they run from describing their rituals. If they had the truth, they would shout it from the mountaintops. Read the books, it is always good to know more about them, but I think the truth is already apparent, just on this thread.
patent +AMDG