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.
Not true on the 33rd degree invite only comment, the 33rd degree is an honor that can only be bestowed upon a Scottish rite mason, and black mail is definitely not collected through initiation rights lmao. It’s hilarious to read and listen to non masons talk about masons like they actually know because they read it online.
I know a mason that quit after he figured it all out. He had a freemason bible - that had nothing to do with God or Jesus. It was about a god of light or some shit; So I'm pretty sure you're talking about a different set or crew.
Yeah that’s odd, we don’t have a bible that I’m aware of. It’s really like any other group, you’ve got your good and bad apples. It’s hilarious that people say the secrets are at the top and it is just evil people at the top lmao. It would be like being an astronaut that has literally seen the round earth hearing internet experts tell you that it’s flat. Anyone can literally become a mason to see for themselves. The mason I know aren’t evil 😆 but maybe that’s just my lodge or the ones I’ve frequented.
I found a copy of one of those Masonic Bibles along with some other books at the local public library that were also Masonic. The collection appeared to have been donated to the library by family members probably as a result of liquidating the estate of a high ranking Mason. I went back to the library a couple of days later to actually check it out and it had vanished along with the other books - something I found out later is common when Masons find these books out in the public sphere.
Yeah I’d love to have one for sure just for the nostalgia I guess. The only bible that I know these guys follow if you will is the King James Version but like I said, there’s bad apples in every organization. We don’t all worship one religion, we have one guy who just believes in a creator but doesn’t follow our bible. Most of us in my lodge were brought up Christian and remain that way to this day.