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To: wideawake
Insofar as they were able to use Masonic lodges as venues for political activity it was a good use of their time. Insofar as they were using their time to prance around in decorative smocks, they were wasting it.

And so does trying to teach a pig to sing

It is pointless to waste my time anymore with someone so prejudice - you are free to have your beliefs and I am free to mine.

119 posted on 06/27/2005 11:43:40 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Well... There you go again!)
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To: KosmicKitty
It is pointless to waste my time anymore with someone so prejudice

Yawn.

Let's use logic:

The Lodge is a fraternal organization that distinguishes itself from other fraternal organizations by its use of specific initiation rituals and organizational guidelines. Those rituals and guidelines are based upon certain core assumptions like Deism.

Unless a person believes that the rituals of Masonry are divine or magical or otherwise imbued with special power - which you may believe, but I doubt it - then the Lodge can be analyzed according to its principles and the question can be asked: are these principles true or false.

The answer is, they are false.

And just an historical footnote: while Washington the Mason was presiding over the United States he helped create, Robespierre the Mason was sending thousands of political prisoners to die at the guillotine.

If the Lodge wants to claim America as its child, it also has to accept the Terror as well.

126 posted on 06/27/2005 12:15:19 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave troops and their Commander-in-Chief)
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