Originally posted by OLMGITNHFTWS
The VAST majority of the world accepts the meaning of Lucifer to mean Satan. It is clear that your misinterpretations are only accepted by the
minority and therefore COMPLETELY DISCREDITED except by those who would deny truth. Decieved by the great deciever.
Yes, you ARE attempting to deceive, however, as is the motto and function of ATS, we are working to dispell ignorance... and your post clearly shows
a) a predisposition toward falsehood, b) a clear lack of understanding of the bible (though you quote it correctly) and the worst of them all c)
depending on the "majority" as a definition.
The ignorance of the majority is never to be relied upon as a harbinger of facts. That the name Lucifer was used to refer to a babylonian king,
haughty and proud, and then LATER, used by Christians to reference Lucifer, does, in fact, actually EXPLAIN Pike's comment. It is indeed a strange
name, the harbinger or LIGHT, to associate with the Prince of Darkness...
further, your quote of Pike is incomplete, and I am constantly amused by folks that quote Pike without ever READING Pike. OLMGITNHFTWS, you are
displaying an abyssal ignorance, and a lack of serious study of the subject on which you are attempting to teach masons, who KNOW better.
So, if you don't want to be a mason, fine, don't petition a lodge. If you want to lie about masonry, however, you will be called on it as we are
doing now. Don't imagine that we aren't amused, however, by your posting the same old same old time worn drivel that all masonic critics post when
they first start attacking masons... .and all of them, as you are now, are getting laughed at and corrected...
Masonry is, by the way, BYOG... that is, bring your own god as masonry offers no god, theology, dogmatic religion of its own, and, in fact, urges all
brothers to continue to seek god as they always have, reminding one and all that Masonry is NOT a replacement to religious faith, but an adjunct to
it.
Originally posted by OLMGITNHFTWS
Yet another familiar example of the ELITIST attitudes that masons promote. On the other hand most other religions promote unity and
compassion.
Oh, churches have united eh? As I recall Jesus said:
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in
law.
Or, how about the Crusades, the Inquisition, the Auto Da Fe, the extermination of the Johabites, the Catholic/Protestant Wars, the burning of
"witches", among just a FEW examples of religious intolerance, brotherly love, unity and compassion...
You made me laugh so hard I now have to clean Pepsi spew off my monitor!
Thanks for playing, however.
[edit on 6/9/04 by theron dunn]
