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To: delacoert

I am Baptist. I joined a Masonic Lodge over 30 years ago. I just wish that people would get off of calling or thinking of Masonry as being a religion, it is not, it is a fraternal organization.

We have Jewish people in our lodge and Catholics and every Protestant denomination you care to name.

When I was being interviewed to be accepted, I was asked if I believed in God, when I said yes, I was told that a “no” answer would have kept me from joining.

I went through the symbolic initiation rites just as Joe Smith did but it never occurred to me to make a religion out of them.


170 posted on 05/11/2010 12:44:34 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (No Romney,No Mark Kirk (Illinois), not now, not ever!)
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To: Graybeard58
I am Baptist. I joined a Masonic Lodge over 30 years ago. I just wish that people would get off of calling or thinking of Masonry as being a religion, it is not, it is a fraternal organization.

I am Catholic and joined 20 years ago. If you have gone through the Scottish rite, I would ask you to start at the top and consider each degree on the way down and see if they are compatible to Christianity. I arrived at the conclusion that they weren't. Perhaps in the light of day, you may not either. If you are only Blue Lodge, you might still run through the three degrees and ask if the things that you swore are compatible with Christianity. I understood them as degree coordinator for my lodge very very well.

198 posted on 05/11/2010 5:02:00 PM PDT by MarkBsnr ( I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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