[nopardons]

" EVIL " ? Then George Washington,, and Teddy Rooevelt, and so many other fine, upstanding, honest, trustworthy, fine men , were / are ALL " evil " ? There are quite a few FREEPERS, who are Masons; 33rd degreed ones, at at that.

You are an ignorant, ill educated, snotty little brat, who should have her mouth washed out with soap. You aren't fit to clean a toilet, in a Masonic Temple, let alone clean the shoes of the vast majority of men, who have ever been Masons !

Oh, BTW ... do you know that all the Kings of ERngland, have been Mason, for the past 300 + years , dear ?

What you know, that is correct, could be inscribed on the point of a pin, with room left over.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

I must remark on the notion of Lutherans thinking lodges are "evil". As an LCMS member, I interpret it much differently.

While it is true that we are not allowed to participate in lodge membership, the reasons are doctrinal.

I have never heard lodge members described as evil by any other Lutheran.

The following brief excerpt from the LCMS website gives a fairly clear explanation of the church's stand and why.

Because of the very fact that Freemasonry purports to assume a religious posture and perform the functions of a church it becomes morally and theologically necessary for the Christian to inquire whether the Craft’s tenets and dogma are compatible with the Christian faith. It is evident that the more thoroughly the Gospel of salvation by the grace of God is understood, the more imperative such inquiry becomes.

If Freemasonry tenaciously clings to the declaration that all religions are merely expressions of one and the same truth, then it must be avoided as sub-Christian.