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Originally posted by PublicGadfly
Truth- many masons are O.K. guys. The ones that are 'superior' would be superior anyway except in an extremely rare case.
Visit your lodge- get off the Internet. Ask the first three masons you come to what do they think about:
a mason letting a known butcher (mass murderer) go free if the murderer was a mason?
a mason lying in court to protect a brother mason accused of child molestation?
a mason subverting his fellows for personal gain?
a mason helping terrorists if the terrorists are also masons and their cause needs help?
I will provide case in point on each of these within a few days- when's lodge? Tuesday night?
Fine- Wednesday give me a post and I'll GIVE you a little masonic education!
Originally posted by JonestownRed
I thought a mason was obligated to keep in confidence any information except murder or treason. Correct me if I'm off base, I may very well be.
edit
I have read it posted that this rule applies only to masons in good standing, and not to criminal activities. Why is murder included in this rule, then?
[edit on 6-9-2004 by JonestownRed]
From Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike, pp 111
It is our duty to obey the laws of our country, and to be careful that prejudice or passion, fancy or affection, error and illusion, be not mistaken for conscience. Nothing is more usual than to pretend conscience in all the actions of man which are public and cannot be concealed. The disobedient refuse to submit to the laws, and they also in many cases pretend conscience; and so disobedience and rebellion become conscience, in which there is neither knowledge nor revelation, nor truth nor charity, nor reason nor religion. Conscience is tied to laws. Right or sure conscience is right reason reduced to practice, and conducting moral actions, while perverse conscience is seated in the fancy or affections--a heap of irregular principles and irregular defects-- and is the same in conscience as deformity is in the body, or peevishness in the affections. It is not enough that the conscience be taught by nature; but it must be taught by God, conducted by reason, made operative by discourse, assisted by choice, instructed by laws and sober principles; and then it is right, and it may be sure. All the general measures of justice, are the laws of God, and therefore they constitute the general rules of government for the conscience; but necessity also hath a large voice in the arrangement of human affairs, and the disposal of human relations, and the dispositions of human laws; and these general measures, like a great river into little streams, are deduced into little rivulets and particularities, by the laws and customs, by the sentences and agreements of men, and by the absolute despotism of necessity, that will not allow perfect and abstract justice and equity to be the sole rule of civil government in an imperfect world; and that must needs be law which is for the greatest good of the greatest number.
Originally posted by JonestownRed
Thanks for clearing that up, Theron. I think that the gist of what you are saying is that even though you would be bound by honor to keep a crime (exceptions being murder or treason) in confidence, it is up to the mason to decide whether it is more dishonorable to keep the secret or disclose it to authorities. Am I getting this right?
Originally posted by esther
Don't you people know that Masons are the only murderers and child molesters on the planet? In fact, you have a set quota to even be considered for membership.
AND I know for a fact that only Masons help each other cover up crimes. No one else would EVER do such a thing.
I also hear they were the ones who taught the priests and bishops the tricks of the trade!
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Originally posted by PublicGadfly
Truth- many masons are O.K. guys. The ones that are 'superior' would be superior anyway except in an extremely rare case. Visit your lodge- get off the Internet. Ask the first three masons you come to what do they think about:
a mason letting a known butcher (mass murderer) go free if the murderer was a mason?
a mason lying in court to protect a brother mason accused of child molestation?
a mason subverting his fellows for personal gain?
a mason helping terrorists if the terrorists are also masons and their cause needs help?
I will provide case in point on each of these within a few days- when's lodge? Tuesday night?
Fine- Wednesday give me a post and I'll GIVE you a little masonic education!
Originally posted by amike555
Funny that you only give so many links to one incident...? Where is the rest of the answers that you promised??
Or is this your mass murder, child molestation, and personal gain?
BTW I beleave this one case was involinary man slaughter.
Originally posted by amike555
BTW here is the link for you all: www.masonicinfo.com...
Originally posted by amike555
That site is were I first contacted my Freemason friends from. Great site, and yes very classy, but most importantly lots of facts.