With all due respect, Terriergal, I rather doubt that with your opinion and mindset, you really have any friends who are Masons. The contempt you have for the Order prevents you from being a true or honest friend of anyone who would belong to the Craft.
My grandfather was a Scottish rite Mason. My grandmother, Eastern Star. My great uncle is a Shriner. His nephew was the master of his lodge. We can trace Masonry in our family back to the mid-1800s. All of that said, if you want to be a Mason, be a Mason - but from what I have seen from it, no Christian should ever be a Mason. They are contradictory belief systems.
I believe the vast majority of Masons are wholly ignorant of where it leads. The vast majority are just well-meaning men wanting to belong to a group, wanting to help the community, wanting to network with others. They are merely deceived. Others are willfully misleading others, and theirs is the greater sin and the greater accountability.
Terriergal is trying to sound a warning call to those who are in Freemasonry and don’t realize its ultimate import. You main disdain her for speaking boldly; but, I hope others pursue what she is pointing out and get out of the lodge.
Terriergal,
Some interesting thoughts on this bb: http://www.rr-bb.com/showthread.php?t=8308&page=3