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.
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.
Yes, the Bible I saw was a King James. It was a beautiful publication and huge. There was a full color plate of George Washington on the inside front cover page wearing his Masonic regalia. I wanted to examine it more closely along with some of the other books I saw but they seemed not so straight forward and appeared a bit bizarre to me at the time. But, they were gone. It did not take long for someone to remove them. The day I saw them they were available for check out and had the library's cataloging numbers on them. I even looked into the library's files and they were no longer even listed in the system. The librarian thought I was nuts. "We have no record of those books ever being here."
I did manage to look at some other Masonic publications shown to me by the wife of a mason that was troubled by what she read in those books. I would have to agree with her having seen them. She was terrified even showing them to me because she was told not to even touch or read them herself. A sure way to get someone to do something is to tell them they can't. Lol. Her husband had them behind lock and key - but she is nosey and too curious to let it go. She is Catholic and wanted to know what her husband was hiding from her. The book appeared to be some variation of a Christian Kabbala/Gnostic theme which would explain the hush hush - only for the initiate of enlightenment so to speak. I will leave it there.
I know that Masonic lodges have within them many different flavors. Most are probably fine and filled with good people trying to do good for their communities that have good intentions. But, there are others that do lurk behind the scenes also within them. I think that fact leads to all the confusion. Any large enough institution can, and do, have not so good elements within them. But that is no reason to throw the baby out with the bathwater and try to paint everyone with the same brush.
I totally agree, the guys I know would do anything to defend this country. Many of us are prior service and a few are prior special forces that I am very close with, those guys are who I look up to and I love having them as brothers.