[MarkBsnr]

If you'd followed the link, you would have seen that it is the official publication of the Grand Lodge of California.

Go out to any Grand Lodge website and see if it is any different. I don't know what you're defending, but there is a whole lot of information from official Masonic sources that contradict your statements.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Masonry is not nor does it claim to be a religion. Most Masons are in fact Christian. The lodge does not attempt to promote or convert anyone away from religion.

The fact is and the fact remains that in large part the schism between Masonry and the Catholic church stems in large part to the fact that Masons figured very prominently in the Protestant Reformation.

[MeanWestTexan]

" I don't know what you're defending, but there is a whole lot of information from official Masonic sources that contradict your statements."

OK, which statements?

[MeanWestTexan]

OK, went to your link and read:

"No Lodge can interfere in the business of another Lodge, nor give Degrees to Brethren who are members of other Lodges. This Landmark is founded on the great principles of courtesy and fraternal kindness, which are at the very foundation of our Institution."

Basically, I don't care what masons in Saudi Arabia do. If they come to my lodge, they book of the Law would be the King James Bible.

And my further point that, freemasonry would mean little to non-Jews or non-Christians remains. Anyone who knows anything about masonry would agree.