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!
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.