Posted on 04/22/2023 7:33:53 PM PDT by ebb tide
“Pope Francis’ last encyclical shows how far the current Catholic Church is from its former positions,” wrote the Lodge.
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Masons are a satanic organization....33rd level , not good/evil incarnate.
No they are not, that is just BS,my father,grandfather and great grandfather and uncle were all masons. Just cut the crap
Not satanic, but also not Christian.
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So what? Kim Jung Un, himself, his father and his grandfather were all Supreme Leaders of the atheist North Korea.
Let’s be honest about the Masons. They are deists who deny the Trinity and that Jesus is the Savior of all mankind. Their tenets are in opposition to the Christian faith. One cannot be a Mason and a sincere Christian at the same time.
Does that include Islam and Satanism???
The answer is: Joe Biden’s Administration, Pope Francis’ Vatican and the Babylon Bee.
The question is: What three organizations write the most fantastical headlines?
There have been/are Protestant Bishops and Pastors who were/are Masons.
And the Catholic Church/Pope's condemnation of Masons goes way back and was because European Catholic Masons were socially mingling with non-Catholics, were easy scapegoats ( go read about the FACTUAL history of what was done to the Knights Templars and by whom and WHY ), like the Jews, and not as active in church charities.
Be "honest"...admit that all you know about Masons is BS propaganda!
Freemasonry is NOT a religion! It is a social and charitable organization.
True.
Rubbish
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Posted on 4/22/2023, 7:53:41 PM by Jim Robinson
Let’s get ‘er done.
I think it’s fair to say that many great people were and are Freemasons (e.g., George Washington, Harry Truman, Mozart et al.). I don’t doubt that your forbears were good men. One of my own great uncles joined the Masons, and, though I never knew him, I’m under the impression that he was fine person. Many people join these groups for friendship and fellowship and networking, and there’s nothing sinister about that. But, with all that said, Masonic lodges, even at their most benign, are not Christian per se. They’re deist, and they promote not Christianity but the ideals of the French Revolution: liberty, equality and fraternity. And it has certainly been the case that Freemasons in countries like France, Spain and Mexico, have, during certain revolutionary periods, sought to displace Christianity with atheism.
And, let’s face it, there is within some branches of freemasonry, an interest in the occult and Satanism that is obviously antithetical to Christianity. Not to say that such things exist in all or even most Masonic lodges, but there have strains of that in places, cf. the writings of Albert Pike on Lucifer. At Freemasonry’s 200th anniversary parade in Rome in 1917, a banner in the parade read, “Satan will reign in the Vatican. The pope will be his slave.”
Likewise, the Shriners, the EASTERN STARS, Demoley, and Rainbow girls ( and NO, the rainbow was chosen centuries ago and isn't anything at all to do with homosexuals! ) are all likewise social and charity parts of Freemasonry.
You're lying about occultism, Satanism, and whatever else you might care to throw into the mix, is what Freemasonry is about.
Historically, were there people who joined the Masons and then went off to form their own weirdo organization? YES, INDEED, THAT'S FACTUAL; however, they were no longer MASONS! Yes, posters, here, have quoted Pike, in their virulent, specious condemnation of Freemasonry; but, that all used to be easily disputed by FR's very own, once large group of posters who were Masons.
And that old cannard, re that the Masons and the Jews caused/ran The French Revolution, written by an expat Catholic priest, then living in London, is a bald faced lie!
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You’re living in a fantasy world if you don’t think that masonic lodges were at the center of the French Revolution. Scores of articles have been written on the subject, and for a long time this wasn’t even controversial. Is it purely coincidental that the founders of the Jacobin Club in Paris were nearly all freemasons? The role that freemasonry had played was so widely known and understood at the time, that you had George Washington et al. going out of their way to assure people that the masonic lodges in this country were benevolent and not up to any mischief.
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