Lie #1 of the Masons, “We are not a religion”.
Yet they have a funeral liturgy,
a symbolic burial cloak (apron),
a definition of deity that excludes Jesus Christ the Creator and Redeemer of the Universe,
and a performance standard for entrance into the “Celestial Lodge”.
Yep!
Masons are into the dark arts and worship Lucifer, but you only find that out when you get to the higher echelons of the ‘society’. Everything is done in secrecy and darkness.
So, yes they are a religion.