> You surely are nit going to try and tell me all new Masons are told everything about the beliefs and practices of Free Masonry as soon as they join, are you?
No, but they are certainly told enough so that they can make an intelligent choice. And if they have any questions, they are free to ask them and they will get an answer that should be sufficient to give them enough guidance to know whether this is something they want to be doing.
It’s not a cload-and-dagger organization, despite what some conspiracy theorists would like to think. It spoils their fun, so they will simply refuse to believe anything but the worst.
That’s a real shame.
There are no “beliefs” of masons, any more than there are “beliefs” of the Boy Scouts.