You’re apparently not much of a student of American History.
Legal records in New England are full of prosecutions of those that took their oaths quite seriously, and in the manner that Pike admonished that they should.
Oh, I’m well aware of the history you mention, and even the most important one you probably know about but didn’t mention; the Morgan Affair. Yes, Freemasonry has had it’s unpleasant incidents, I freely admit. But I live in the present, and present day Freemasonry is nothing like what you describe.
Is it your belief that I should reject Christianity because the church once conducted Inquisitions and sent Conquistadors to the new world to convert natives, and failing that, to slaughter them? I’m afraid that your reaching back into history to be selectively outraged doesn’t impress me.