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???
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.”
At the lower levels it appears as a fraternal organization. One thing the masons do is if a free mason is on trial and a mason is on the jury, they will never vote to convict a fellow mason. This is how we end up with our current Justice system, where the Bidens can commit any crime and get away with it.
Btw, my grandfather was a 32nd degree mason.
One of my grandfathers was a devout Baptist believing in salvation through Christ only. The other an atheist. Both Masons. I suspect they enjoyed the mens’ club and the secrecy.