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It wasn't a 24/7 world in the early 18th century, and the median age of the Brethren was a good deal lower than today. I'd say there's room for it, depending on circumstances.

What is "false"?

Or maybe that's just what they WANT you to believe...

That's not a problem. Be honest when you approach them. Let them know you don't know any Masons. That doesn't disqualify you.

I know Wiccans. As it has been explained to me, Wicca neither requires nor prohibits belief in any higher power, although its rituals refer to a "God" and a "Goddess", but what those mean is up to the individual Wiccan. Thus, one Wiccan could see them as merely "personifications of concepts"...

An excerpt from the Utah Grand Lodge's magazine: http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/sbooks.html

"It is not a question of a Bible being on the altar. It is the Volume of the Sacred Law we recognize. Among Christians it is the Old and New Testaments combined; among Jews it is the Old Testament alone; among Mohommedans..." "In a lodge of Israelites it is the Pentateuc; In a lodge of Moslems...

If anything, Satanism has a closer cosmology to Christianity than Wicca does, and both of them are closer to Christianity than Buddhism is in fundamental cosmology. What SPECIFIC doctrines of Wicca do you claim make it a "gateway" to admitting Satanists to Freemasonry? Could you elucidate, with...

It's not really about food. Food is how most people manifest it, but gluttony is about never getting "enough". One must always stuff in as much of anything as possible. Yes, I am talking about gluttony and not "greed", because the word translated as "greed" is "philargyria", which actually means...

Is it an external supernatural power who enforces the Obligation on a man or the man who enforces the Obligation upon himself?

This leads us to a great division in Christian doctrine, primarily between East and West. In West (Roman/Latin) Christianity, "sin" has been defined almost exclusively as "spiritual crime". That is, one must fulfill all the normal prerequisites of criminal liability to be "guilty" of sin. In...

As far as the most vocal American leaders are concerned, the only sins are lust and envy (of rich people).

To entertain my grandson, we have "Rudolph's Shiny New Year" on TV, starring Brother Red Skelton.

That still counts as "sourced" for me. It helps me evaluate the work, as well. When I find out that someone has, for example, used Wallis Budge as their primary source for ancient Egypt, I know that their work is probably about as reliable as a Saturday morning cartoon.