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originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: TzarChasm

As an atheist or agnostic, would you want to say prayers, learn things from the bible, and be in a group that centered it's teachings around God?

i did not know freemasonry is a religion.

originally posted by: TzarChasm

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: TzarChasm

As an atheist or agnostic, would you want to say prayers, learn things from the bible, and be in a group that centered it's teachings around God?

i did not know freemasonry is a religion.

I've been following this thread pretty closely and that reply is just plain ignorance.

a reply to: TzarChasm

It isn't, but it is religious in nature. Still not sure you answered the question.

So i have a question, are you guys reading the Phoenician scriptures or the one they stole from Egypt?
Cause one of the groups lay it in text the other in pillars, cause it seems you use both?

originally posted by: Cancil
So i have a question, are you guys reading the Phoenician scriptures or the one they stole from Egypt?

There is nothing Phoenician or Egyptian in the ritual.

One of the images i found was about geometrical shapes in freemasonry coming from the Old ancient culture of the East, the fingers and the twelve and so on..

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Im not that interested in the rituals, i have a ritual when im taking a s*** doesnt mean its right cause most world wash their asses afterwards..

So the way i see it, you copied the Dionysos cult and its hierarchical system`?

originally posted by: Cancil
Im not that interested in the rituals...

Considering that is the primary source of disseminating the teachings of the Fraternity the ritual would be the only place where your question would be addressed. All Masons experience the ritual, all other forms to further what is taught there are optional and personally interpretive.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

So do you believe the Rosslyn Chapel is the ark of the covenant? I

a reply to: Cancil

No.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

But why build amplifiers with old testament writings in the same building?

Its one of your sacred places is it not? I cant see one of you being a priest of some sort?

originally posted by: TerryDon79

originally posted by: TzarChasm

originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: TzarChasm

As an atheist or agnostic, would you want to say prayers, learn things from the bible, and be in a group that centered it's teachings around God?

i did not know freemasonry is a religion.

I've been following this thread pretty closely and that reply is just plain ignorance.

then perhaps you should direct your concerns to network dude, the user i was responding to. i am not a mason, thats why im asking questions. but it appears that there are strong religious undertones to freemasonry, whether it is a religious institution or not. you are at least required to enlist with a supreme being, regardless of what you call it. i admire a great many things about masons, but that is one detail i cannot comply with. thanks for your patience, masons of ats.

originally posted by: Cancil


But why build amplifiers with old testament writings in the same building?

Only the people that built it could answer specific questions as to its construction.

Its one of your sacred places is it not? I cant see one of you being a priest of some sort?

it is not.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

I have a really curious question, you place different deities in the same allegory when they in fact arent the same, is your teachings wrong or do you just accept what is taught? The sons of Cain rebelled and was extremely punished, could they have taught you maybe wrong on purpose ?

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

The Sun, the moon and the Star brings different ages of man.. Somehow i dont have faith in you guys, it seems you put your own words in the scriptures, am i wrong?

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

You say you are are - Student of history, could you explain to me the true meaning of the Cleopatra needle or the Obelisk, somehow im not sure you actually know.. I think you believe in what you are taught.

originally posted by: Cancil
I have a really curious question, you place different deities in the same allegory when they in fact arent the same...

Which ones in particular are you referring to?

originally posted by: Cancil
...
am i wrong?

Yes.

originally posted by: Cancil

You say you are are - Student of history, could you explain to me the true meaning of the Cleopatra needle or the Obelisk...

Other then it being used to symbolize the sun god Ra?