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To: BereanBrain
Being a conservative, traditional Roman Catholic, (which is apparently an anomaly in today's unpolite society)I have nothing to do with Masonry. Excepting, of course, when I want to lay some tiles.

I believe that many who are Masons mean well and if you speak to them of what Masonry has been doing beind the scenes forever they'll find it difficult to believe you.

Even if they know the truths about Masonic evildoing they'll, of course, deny it and begin to heap abuse at you in an attempt to discredit what you say.

63 posted on 11/29/2004 12:48:46 PM PST by JesseHousman
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To: JesseHousman

Wherefore we see that men are publicly tempted by the many allurements of pleasure; that there are journals and pamphlets with neither moderation nor shame; that stage-plays are remarkable for license; that designs for works of art are shamelessly sought in the laws of a so-called realism; that the contrivances of a soft and delicate life are most carefully devised; and that all the blandishments of pleasure are diligently sought out by which virtue may be lulled to sleep. Wickedly, also, but at the same time quite consistently, do those act who do away with the expectation of the joys of heaven, and bring down all happiness to the level of mortality, and, as it were, sink it in the earth. Of what We have said the following fact, astonishing not so much in itself as in its open expression, may serve as a confirmation. For, since generally no one is accustomed to obey crafty and clever men so submissively as those whose soul is weakened and broken down by the domination of the passions, there have been in the sect of the Freemasons some who have plainly determined and proposed that, artfully and of set purpose, the multitude should be satiated with a boundless license of vice, as, when this had been done, it would easily come under their power and authority for any acts of daring...



...With the greatest unanimity the sect of the Freemasons also endeavors to take to itself the education of youth. They think that they can easily mold to their opinions that soft and pliant age, and bend it whither they will; and that nothing can be more fitted than this to enable them to bring up the youth of the State after their own plan. Therefore, in the education and instruction of children they allow no share, either of teaching or of discipline, to the ministers of the Church; and in many places they have procured that the education of youth shall he exclusively in the hands of laymen, and that nothing which treats of the most important and most holy duties of men to God shall be introduced into the instructions on morals.

Pope Leo XIII

Humanum Genus - Encyclical on Freemasonry - Promulgated on April 20, 1884


232 posted on 11/29/2004 1:47:38 PM PST by St. Johann Tetzel (A fool can ask more questions than a wise man can answer.)
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To: JesseHousman
Even if they know the truths about Masonic evildoing

Do you have some TRUTH about Masonic evildoing that you'd care to share? Undisputed evidence? Proof? Most of us don't know of any Masonic evildoing that they are guilty of beyond holding really boring meetings.

345 posted on 11/29/2004 7:38:48 PM PST by Choose Ye This Day (DUmmies: You keep visualizing a Kerry win...we'll lead the world and beat the terrorists. Mmmmkay?)
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