I once made friends with an old former freemason. He was one of the kindest guys I ever met and claimed to once have been a rather high rank (he told me his ran

I once made friends with an old former freemason. He was one of the kindest guys I ever met and claimed to once have been a rather high rank (he told me his rank, but I forgot). He quit when he realized that freemasonry does not live up to their ideals anymore. According to him, freemasons keep the same religious animosities among each other that we have in public society and freemasonry is used by many (most?) freemasons mainly as a networking vehicle. Also, my grand uncle was a freemason, but he was rather arrogant and did not care much about the rest of the family, so I never learned anything about freemasonry from him. Those are the only touch points that I had with freemasonry.