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Not everyone at all would say that. I'd say that ONLY Muslims would claim that Aqsa mosque was "a completion of" Solomon's Temple. Non-Muslims would disagree.

Badly taken out of context: "Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger, for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rank growth of wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word...

So, not asking questions but dictating to Masons how wrong they all are...

A statement made by many Irregulars and Clandestines to rationalize their errors. Women are free to form their own independent Masonic societies should they so wish.

I would say "Yes, that would be its purpose." Generally, I've seen calls for a "Grand Lodge of the United States" whenever someone has a personal beef with a state Grand Lodge and things a Grand Lodge of the United States would back their personal feud. It's a silly idea. Representation at the...

Speaking as an Eastern Christian, looking back at the sack of Constantinople by Western Christians, "the barbarity of Western Christianity is really something"...

Philosophical fideism is a position that most people have never heard of, even though many people have adopted it. http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/skept.htm

Regardless of whether or not the dogma is correct, to state that something cannot be known is to adopt a dogma. It is to reject agnosis and embrace a gnosis that something cannot be known.

When and where did people first have a government? Does that mean the USA began then and there. And if the USA, why not ISIS? And if we consider such a "beginning" to define identity, does that mean USA = ISIS?

So, then, if one is born into a family that practices mental bondage and grows up in such mental bondage, one is forevermore disqualified from being a Mason, even if one has become a freedman? Freedman is a different status than freeborn, after all. The historical exoteric meaning of "freeborn"...

You deny the possibility that Masons saw this picture and projected their own "meaning" onto it, regardless of its actual Egyptian usage?

There was no such "vote". Or is it your contention that Christianity is false?

And he was also God, literally and completely. Who else is is that qualified?

If any old rubbish can be made up, why bother getting any of it right, then? Why bother getting H- A-'s story right? Just make up whatever.

Autism and factual thought go together. It's hard-wired. Too bad I'm some sort of "stuck" thing and will be "stuck" for my entire life, thanks to biology.

But if anything can be made up, why worry about truth at all?

Gee, another reason for Freemasonry to stick with what's verifiable...

That claim can be made about anything. It can be claimed that the knowledge of electron microscopes was passed down mouth-to-ear from the paleolithic, in unbroken sequence, entirely without writing down a single thing, until the world was "ready", and then an "initiate" revealed the "mystery" in...

Definitely very nice.

The labor for the great Egyptian projects was free. That's been well established by more recent Egyptological discoveries, but it was still low status. The leaders of the projects didn't start out as hewers and haulers. I do wonder what is wrong with accepting that Freemasonry began in the...