I'm not trying to minimize the potential issues Christians may have with Masons. However, Masons contest these reports are true. Gays don't contest that they do what they do, they just try to tell us the Bible is wrong. The Archbishop hasn't seen fit to criticize them, so why is he criticizing the Masons? Saying, "It's not as bad as all that," isn't nearly as blasphemous as calling G-d a liar.
Shalom.
Ar Gee's assesment of the improriety of anti-Masonry is commendable. How can a defense be made for persecuting Christian men within the Masonic Lodge ?
By the definitions of a religion offered above virtually any organization would be qualifiable as a cult, to include the congress, police departments, colleges, town councils and the such. This leaves us with very little public assembly, excepting the church, which is less than satanity. I can not accept this as a logical progression of reasoning.
Rather, the only motives which could lead us to such conclusions would be those of maliciousness and personal character attacks which tend to make void the peace and harmony within the Body of Christ.
I would refer you all to the great study on Freemasonry by the Southern Baptist Convention and to the exhaustive studies by the late John J. Robinson. These were the most thorough and in depth analyses ever of the fraternity, and I wholeheartedly believe what they turned up to be the truth.