[ExSoldier]

I am a Master Mason in the Blue Lodge and my wife is a member in good standing of the Order of the Eastern Star (sort of a wives auxillary to the Masonic Order).

Within the last week, through constant prayer and dedicated reading on the subject I have reached an inescapable conclusion that I have been deceived by the Father of Lies and I renounce the precepts of Masonry forever. I cannot in good conscience be a professing Christian and have my Lord Jesus Christ as Soverign in my life and remain a Mason.

At the time I took the Masonic degrees and instructions I was at a point in my life when I was running from God. Therefore I didn't analyze too closely the absolutely PAGAN oaths I took and swore to uphold.

I have met many professing Christians in the Lodges and can only conclude that they, as well as those "famous and famously good people" and the Founding fathers who also professed Masonry were as I was victim of the Father of Lies, who's pretty good at his job.

My reasons for this action are on one level open to examination in the precepts of the craft. However, on a far deeper level my reasons are too personal and wounding for me to discuss them in public. Masons on FR need not approach me to try and "bring me back into the fold" as it were. I could not have been this objective and certain had I not undergone the instruction, memory work and the rituals of the three degrees to that of Master Mason.

Resources (partial list) that I can now validate as being instrumental in my decision as well as my discussions with the Lord are as follows and I highly recommend them:

"Fast Facts On False Teachings" by Ron Carlson and Ed Decker AND "Hope of the wicked" by Ted Flynn. Both are available on amazon.com.

[Quix]

Am DEEPLY impressed by your courage and candor.

You might do well to put on your asbestos hazmat suit now.

I decline the arguments but I do occasionally feel constrained to make a short declaration of where I stand, what my perceptions are and my experiences have been.

God's best blessings, protection and provision for you and yours.

[Indie]

I renounce the precepts of Masonry forever. I cannot in good conscience be a professing Christian and have my Lord Jesus Christ as Soverign in my life and remain a Mason.

God bless you brother and praise the Lord! Demolay almost sucked me in as well [no pun intended], but I hauled my rear after the first "degree" when I found out my particular chapter was nothing but a bunch of homosexuals, and the lodge dad was a pedophile. [circa 1977]