 Originally posted by JoshNorton
For years if you'd asked me I probably would have told you that I was agnostic. More recently I decided that Deist was probably the best description
for how I feel and what I believe.... that there IS something bigger than us, but that whatever it is does not have a hands-on involvement with us,
our lives, our planet, etc. 
Ironically I felt the same way for the majority of my life and struggled with reconciling this with my Roman Catholic upbringing and the dogma which
it entailed. Discovering Deism and the philosophy which it entails was a rather refreshing and unburdening experience.
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Well, after reading this thread, I thought that I could give a little simple explanation of what a Mason does believe.
On the first of all, yes, you can consider Masonry a Religion, when you talk about devotion and belief (not faith).
Not the Institutional Religion you see nowadays, as Catholicism, and so on.
There is God, however, not a white bearded man on the clouds watching over you, like Catholicism says, but God as Nature itself.
Like if God was Order itself. The Law of Nature itself. The perfect equilibrium of Nature is God.
Yes, many Presidents, Lawyers and so on, etc, have been Masons, and normally, most Masons are High-Middle class. But this is for some reason.
Not for World domination, but because Freemasonry is an Exoterical society, and not Esoteric.
So, Masons try to change and shape society by the following of their Ideology (which isn't negative at all).
For example, in my country, many important and notable Institutions are not only controlled by Masons, but they were founded by themselves.
So, Masons play an important role on society, and their intentions are good (or supposed to).
Problems like the P2 lodge are fault of the lodge itself and not of the whole freemasonry.
Man isn't perfect. We all can do mistakes.
So, basicly, Masons do not work on World domination. Rather work on the World itself.
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