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Originally posted by Egyptia
reply to post by ForkandSpoon
If you adhere to the path of the Mason then you are the pharisee and worse you are the legion. Do not speak to me of that which you know nothing of.
This is the journey for every soul in this world..............the end point is truth and salvation.
Your soul is also priceless and not wanting to be lost.edit on 10-4-2012 by Egyptia because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by ForkandSpoon
I must admit it is very customary in my locale for chaplins to end prayers in this way...
Originally posted by JoshNorton
Originally posted by ForkandSpoon
Sometimes that chaplain gets admonished for his careless disregard, other times it slides. Which is right?
Originally posted by ForkandSpoon
I am really concerned to hear brothers heckled Christ or Christianity.
So you're saying there's a flippant and petty attitude towards people who are pretending to be Christian, but really don't live by Christian ideals and shouldn't be called such? Yeah, that's about right.
Originally posted by HardToStarboard
It happens on these boards not infrequently. There's definitely a flippant and petty attitude towards Christians here at times (and when I say Christians, please understand I'm not referring to someone like KingPanzerGrenadier - he's arrogant, insulting, full of hate and opposite everything Christ stands for).
Originally posted by JoshNorton
So you're saying there's a flippant and petty attitude towards people who are pretending to be Christian, but really don't live by Christian ideals and shouldn't be called such? Yeah, that's about right.
Originally posted by HardToStarboard
It happens on these boards not infrequently. There's definitely a flippant and petty attitude towards Christians here at times (and when I say Christians, please understand I'm not referring to someone like KingPanzerGrenadier - he's arrogant, insulting, full of hate and opposite everything Christ stands for).
I disagree. There are plenty of Christian Masons on ATS who are not shy about letting people know their beliefs, and there are plenty of non-Christian Masons on ATS who treat those brothers with equal respect.
Originally posted by HardToStarboard
No, perhaps my parenthetical comment muddied my statement. I'm saying there is a flippant and petty attitude toward Christianity from some of the Masonic brethren here from time to time. I guess I expect more out of my brothers than I actually witness.
Originally posted by JoshNorton
I disagree. There are plenty of Christian Masons on ATS who are not shy about letting people know their beliefs, and there are plenty of non-Christian Masons on ATS who treat those brothers with equal respect.
Originally posted by HardToStarboard
No, perhaps my parenthetical comment muddied my statement. I'm saying there is a flippant and petty attitude toward Christianity from some of the Masonic brethren here from time to time. I guess I expect more out of my brothers than I actually witness.
The difference isn't that they're all Masons. The difference is that the Christian Mason, while still a Christian, doesn't feel the need to try to convert anyone who's not, or tell the rest of us that we're going to hell because we don't believe what they believe.
It's the extremists that get mocked, time and time again. I have yet to see a Christian non-Mason on ATS get mocked for his belief if his posts contain tolerance for beliefs other than his own.
It's been a few years, but I believe there have been a few Muslim fundamentalists and maybe a guy from the Moorish Science Temple who got into it with ATS Masons once. But I agree, more often than not it's fundamentalist Christians who tell us all what our relationships with God are, without regard to their own.
Originally posted by getreadyalready
If there were other religions attacking Masonry, then you would likely see the same attitude.
Originally posted by JoshNortonWhat I won't stand for is you telling me that your beliefs are right and mine are wrong, when ultimately it's a matter of faith and neither of us can know for certain until we're dead anyway.