The ClayTaurus said:Well, one of the two of you has to be lying. The quaint, harmless, obligatory rules either exist or don't exist. You say they do, and no1 says they don't. If you're not lying, then he is.
The thing of it is he isn't lying, he truly believes that freemasonry is non-compliant to his religion. Nor am I, this belief of his is based on misconceptions that have existed about freemasonry for quite some time.
Men who believe that freemasonry is evil don't become freemasons and easily can believe in those misconceptions without compunction.
What I do here is talk about what the fraternity is about so some of those misconceptions can be cleared up. I have little doubt that I cannot clear them up for somebody who has made up their minds about it, but I have a hard time just letting these "truths" stand without pointing out certain things that I know that can show them to be misconceptions. Basically I am defending all the Christians that I know to be freemasons who believe as strongly as ever in their Faith as they ever have.