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I would say that the reasons run deeper than a power play. Freemasonry demands active participation in a religious liturgy in which Christ is implicitly exclud
by abrenuntio 4y ago
I would say that the reasons run deeper than a power play.
Freemasonry demands active participation in a religious liturgy in which Christ is implicitly excluded.
When the Church warns against such worship and the basic attitudes (beliefs) it inevitably expresses, it is not expressing hatred but charity: concern for souls and loyalty to the mission it received from Christ in Mt 28:19-20. My guess is that you will find the same instincts in e.g. Eastern Orthodox churches.
- Bayart 4y agoI agree with you. I wanted to include in my post that it had likely to do with Freemasons having ritual without much in the way of doctrine, but I didn't want to appear inflammatory.
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- bovermyer 4y agoThat's an interesting way of putting it, and not inaccurate, either. When I think about it... Freemasonry has a very different religious focus than most Abrahamic religions, despite its origins in the same. Yeshua ben Yosef is basically ignored in favor of other historical, and explicitly allegorical, figures.
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