no1tovote4
Gold Member
I think that your continual repetition of this without including the full statement that I used - Freemasonry is not a religion, it is a Fraternity" - makes it clear that you are arguing in bad faith. Taking a small portion of the statement and using it to build a strawman is disingenuous.rtwngAvngr said:Oh, see, i thought continual bleating of "it's a frat, it's a frat" carried with it the implication that a frat cannot be a religion. My bad.
In my estimation the Masonic Temple IS both a fraternity and a religion due to it's demand of certain religious beliefs and practice of rituals with religious content.
Once again, it has not a demand of specific beliefs and offers no salvation. It simply has a demand of Faith. And I will once again state the difference.
A belief in God is a Faith, every Mason has one. A belief ABOUT God is a religion, Masonry does not regard the man for his religion, only his Faith. Freemasonry does not offer salvation, it does not, as I have clarified before, require any conversion from one religion to another, it doesn't promote one God over another. It is simply a group of guys that all believe in a Deity meeting to promote Charity and Brotherly Love. Nothing more.
Just like the Boy Scouts it requires that you believe in a Deity, it does not require anything about HOW you believe in the Deity.
When will you tire of playing with words and address the perilous endangerment of your soul?
This I can understand. It is nice that you care. I have addressed my soul with my own religion, that of Buddhism. Thank you very much.