My testimony is not fiction, but an organization which places anything prior to Christ and explicitly disallows one to state their faith in Christ is not a body of brethren to encourage good works through faith in Christ.
There is a litany of other evidence over 50 yrs which also doesn’t shine favorable on Freemasonry, but that is not for me to judge, but simply provide testimony to those with that authority.
I encourage Masons to further study Scripture, but only by faith alone in Christ alone, lest their hearts be hardened.
BTW, during this Church Age our function is to perform good works through faith in Christ to glorify Him. If we glorify any other before we glorify Him, we fail to walk by faith in Him. While one might deny allegations have any merit, one also allows those who perpetuate unrighteousness to continue and further denies glory to the Son.
I do not seek the merit from any other, but attribute my faith to Him and place all glory to Him. Likewise I encourage those who seek righteousness to further remain in faith alone in Christ alone prior to any other, to perform the works He has prepared at the right time and at the right place.
You are wasting your time. I will not engage in polemic, particularly not in worthless, ad hoc, rumor-mongering polemic. If you have had bad experiences, I am sorry for you. Things happen. I will not defend practices for which there is no confirmation and certainly no warrant in the rules and edicts of which I am aware. If that does not satisfy you, then you must go to someone else for satisfaction or further contention (as that appears also to satisfy something for you).
I would quit posting if I were you because you are telling the Free Republic nation that the investigating committee found you lacking to be a Free Mason.
You were Black Balled.