Originally posted by mlatrice7251 Ha ha. Very funny. I could really care less if you worshipped the smurfs. I am not here to argue. I am
voicing what I feel and know, just like you are.
Uh.....no. He's arguing from first-hand knowledge and experience. You're arguing what you
think from (at best) second-hand information, the type that usually comes freighted with an agenda. If you actually knew, you wouldn't have bothered
with your post because you would have known the 'facts' as you've presented them to be multi-generationally-recycled foolishness without even a
passing familiarity with
actual fact.
Masons as a group are a religiously diverse lot. Among our Lodge officers alone, we have five major world religions represented: Sikh (our Senior
Warden), Jewish (one of our Past Masters), Catholic (our Senior Deacon), Anglican (myself, the Junior Deacon), Latter Day Saints aka Mormon (Senior
Steward) and a couple of other Trinitarian Christians that I don't know specifically their sect.
And that's just out of 11 individuals in the Lodge without taking into account the rest of our brethren let alone Masonry in general.
Given the historical enmity that Christians of all stripes have had working with each other in the past (and this is with a group who profess to
believe essentially the same thing), how on Earth do you propose that members of multiple world religions can somehow come together to somehow worship
Satan (including members of religions that don't include a belief in Satan and/or have a Satanic proxy) while somehow flummoxing non-Masons into
believing that we work for charity and the betterment of society in general?
Bit of a non-starter that. Makes almost as much sense as 9/11 'truth'.
Originally posted by mlatrice7251 So as long as I am doing what I am supposed todo and you feel tha you are to, then we are good! We
will see who enters heaven on judgment day!
Ultimately so. My read on the New Testament is that almost nobody will (yourself included). IIRC, the number's limited to 144,000 and even if I've
pooched the detailed number, the fact of the matter is that proponents of different sects of even the same religion have been duking it out for power
since before recorded history insisting that the only way to a peaceful afterlife is through doing things their way and their way alone.