How can you claim to have a "relationship with God" while stating you're not "a terribly religious man"?
You masons worship a deity that is not the Holy Trinity. You're no more than pagans.
“You masons worship a deity that is not the Holy Trinity. You’re no more than pagans.”
I wondered when it was going to come to this. You know nothing about the faith of masons. They include almost every religion on earth and only those that profess a diety. And that includes your diety as there are catholics in our numbers. We will not accept men or women into our fraturnity that do not act in a manner consistent with Christianity as if you’ll remember our saying, “We take good men and make them better.” And our sisters in the Order of Eastern Star are the same.
On the alter in the center of some of our lodges and chapters sits the King James version. The King James Bible for Catholics is a near replica of the 1611 edition of the King James Bible (Authorized Version) which has been updated to reflect the order of books and text found in the Catholic Bible. Welcome home. If you’re a good man or woman, we would love to have you in our participation. And even though you bad mouth us saying things about us that are just not true, I’ll bet you don’t even know what we do.
Let me help you out. We operate 22 children’s hospitals in 3 countries and donate around $3.6 billion dollars a day to them and other charities like working dogs, children’s dyslexia centers, The Red Cross, youth scholorships, vision related groups, and many more. Ever heard of the Mayo Clinic. The Mayo brothers were masons.
Many of our founders were masons like Washington, Franklyn, Revere, and his riding partner William Dawes...lots of them. Hitler hated the masons so bad he had over 50K of us slaughtered because we supported people who believed in a diety, the Jews.
You know so little about us, yet you hate us for what we are? You don’t know what we are. I would suggest before you start to tells us what we are like in the original thread, you find out. We don’t bad mouth you and we know about the same about you as you do us. But we have your bible on some of our alters that we pray to just like in any catholic church. Only difference is that we respect people’s right to choice of their religious beliefs. We don’t feel any church is a one size fits all. And my peers, in 51 Grand Lodges (one in each state and the District of Columbia) which together have a total membership of around 2 million in north America, all cherish these freedoms. And we love God, too...just like you and in many cases using your volume to do so.
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