I believe your summary is correct, but would add that in my experience those that hate them the most give little or nothing to anything half as worthwhile as their hospitals.
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And you factually know this how (you have access to the ‘haters’ bank accounts or something)?
I can tell you a few things:
A Koran is at every meeting (fact). My opinion-Islam is evil. Consequently any person supporting them is either ignorant or evil.
My dad was a high level Shriner for years. They used to pester him relentlessly to beg for money for them at grocery stores until the day he died from a battle with cancer. They were relentless! Even when his health was obviously failing. You see how many fingers I’m holding up? That’s how many came to his funeral.
My mother never heard a word from them after their ‘source’ was gone.
Ditto
My family still talks about that. Mom and Dad were totally into the work. When dad passed Mom never got a call, no one came by, nothing.
It was very odd. Yet very revealing.