With the same measure you use to judge others, the same measure will be used against you. I'm not a Mason cuz I hate people telling me what to do or what to believe. With that said, you call them cannibals while Catholics believe they are literally eating the flesh and blood of Jesus and use Olympic style mental gymnastics to deny that. You call them pedophiles and condemn them for it, what about all the Christian pedophiles within church ranks? Will you condemn all of Christianity in the same light? Blood eaters? How many Americans chow down on raw or slightly raw steak. Christians eat blood all the time and don't think twice.
If Freemasons are doing all these good things maybe it's because it's a reflection of what's within them and just like Christians, some can suck and some have better behavior than others.
What you essentially have with them is a Mystery religion because of violent Christians. Christians would k$ll anyone not believing as them, so other groups had to keep things secret.
Read Albert Pikes Morals and Dogmas, it's not hidden anymore. That's the esoteric stuff. They see commonalities in all religions, focus on number symbolism and themes. They don't believe in Satan, let alone worship him.
There are various levels because truth doesn't just hit someone upside the head and they believe it without preparing ones body and mind to receive it. The 33rd degree gets into the Kabalah and while that's all mystical to people, it's essentially what ancient cultures believed and Jesus taught. The mystery style setup is still with the Judaistic kabbalah.
They're essentially spiritual Christians while the Christians clinging to naive ideas
Look at the Old Testament versus the New Testament. How can anyone with reason think that an all powerful and all loving Deity would act as petty and violent as the OT God?
There's a reason Gnosticism flourished and even within that was the mystery setup where what you're initially told isn't accurate, yet it serves as a foundation to moving to the deeper stuff.
Christianity creates fear, dread, and pessimism in people. Masons don't have a fear of hell. They're not motivated by negative things like doing what they do to avoid temporal and eternal punishment from God. They don't look at everyone different than them as evil and engage in self induced delusions trying to whip people into a fear frenzy.
How many Masons do you know? How many have you ever talked to? Have you ever listened to their thoughts on religion, God, the afterlife?
There were no 12 tribes of Israel, there was no golden temple. There was no mega exodus from Egypt. Judaism is written in a myth style just like the Greek and Roman religions. Paul even admits that much. All those things go beyond what most people are capable of understanding. Religion in the past was a lot more sophisticated than what people believe.
With the same measure you use to judge others, the same measure will be used against you. I'm not a Mason cuz I hate people telling me what to do or what to believe. With that said, you call them cannibals while Catholics believe they are literally eating the flesh and blood of Jesus and use Olympic style mental gymnastics to deny that. You call them pedophiles and condemn them for it, what about all the Christian pedophiles within church ranks? Will you condemn all of Christianity in the same light? Blood eaters? How many Americans chow down on raw or slightly raw steak. Christians eat blood all the time and don't think twice.
If Freemasons are doing all these good things maybe it's because it's a reflection of what's within them and just like Christians, some can suck and some have better behavior than others.
What you essentially have with them is a Mystery religion because of violent Christians. Christians would k$ll anyone not believing as them, so other groups had to keep things secret.
Read Albert Pikes Morals and Dogmas, it's not hidden anymore. That's the esoteric stuff. They see commonalities in all religions, focus on number symbolism and themes. They don't believe in Satan, let alone worship him.
There are various levels because truth doesn't just hit someone upside the head and they believe it without preparing ones body and mind to receive it. The 33rd degree gets into the Kabalah and while that's all mystical to people, it's essentially what ancient cultures believed and Jesus taught. The mystery style setup is still with the Judaistic kabbalah.
They're essentially spiritual Christians while the Christians clinging to naive ideas
Look at the Old Testament versus the New Testament. How can anyone with reason think that an all powerful and all loving Deity would act as petty and violent as the OT God?
There's a reason Gnosticism flourished and even within that was the mystery setup where what you're initially told isn't accurate, yet it serves as a foundation to moving to the deeper stuff.
Christianity creates fear, dread, and pessimism in people. Masons don't have a fear of hell. They're not motivated by negative things like doing what they do to avoid temporal and eternal punishment from God. They don't look at everyone different than them as evil and engage in self induced delusions trying to whip people into a fear frenzy.
How many Masons do you know? How many have you ever talked to? Have you ever listened to their thoughts on religion, God, the afterlife?
There were no 12 tribes of Israel, there was no golden temple. There was no mega exodus from Egypt. Judaism is written in a myth style just like the Greek and Roman religions. Paul even admits that much. All those things go beyond what most people are capable of understanding. Religion in the past was a lot more sophisticated than what people believe.