I have a freemason lodge right across the street from me. They are Christians who invite all faiths to worship God with them, and do community service work. There is nothing nefarious about it.
The Freemasons are a long standing organization which our founding fathers were a part of. Why should I believe that Christians like George Washington and others were part of an evil organization when I can just believe that anti-Christian groups are trying to demonize Christians?
If some reddit neckbeard is telling me that a Christian group is evil and bad, I am far more likely to think that the reddit neckbeard is a far left Christian-hating liberal. Who are these people making these claims against the Freemasons, exactly?
The same demonizing is made about the Knights of Templar, which were Catholic-Christians who opposed mass immigration and organized to protect their homeland.
Well that's the problem, you're saying, not showing. Anyone can say anything.
I was looking into one of the historical hoaxers who was claiming that Freemasons were evil and it seem that he spent his time writing anti-Catholic books - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9o_Taxil
How do we know, exactly, that the conspiracy theorists are not simply people who hate Christians/Catholics/Religion?
I'm gonna help ya out here a little, take it or leave it. If you want any respect and want to be taken seriously, stop saucing wiki and AI slop. If you use AI at least go to the sources it's drawing from and confirm and take things into context..
I applaud you for questioning and asking. That's what we do. Even if it goes against the so called status quo of the group.
The Wiki page I linked to said it was a widely known hoax. You're going to have to address that and show that it's not. If prominent Freemasons were writing in books that they worship the devil that should be pretty easy to prove, right? But no, instead you choose to deny that the matter is in question.
I'm not denying shit. Just tryin to help ya out. Shill away and slide on bud. We see you.