CajunTinMan
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I found this on the Waller Lodge AF&AM website and thought it was very fitting to many of the discussions about Freemasonry and Christianity.
Q: Is Masonry "guilty" of teaching toleration?
A: Yes. And proud of it! It seems a strange accusation, but anti-Masonic writers often charge that we accept people with many different religious viewpoints as Brothers. They are correct.
Jesus did not say to us, "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another - as long as he goes to the same church you do, or if he belongs to the same political party."
In Romans 13: 8 -10 Jesus said "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fullfilled the law
In John 13: 34, 35 Jesus said "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another as I have loved you.â€
Does “love one another†mean we should only love Baptists, or Methodists or some self appointed splinter preacher who makes a living by selling hatred literature.
Yet one anti-Masonic writer claims that this toleration is the blackest sin of Masonry. Toleration, he says, "springs from the pits of hell and from the father of lies, Lucifer."
When you consider what intolerance has produced in this world, the Inquisition, the massacre of the inhabitants of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, the burning of Protestants at the stake, the horrors of Hitler, the mass murders of Stalin, the "killing fields" of Cambodia -- it is hard to believe that toleration springs from the devil.
Q: Is Masonry "guilty" of teaching toleration?
A: Yes. And proud of it! It seems a strange accusation, but anti-Masonic writers often charge that we accept people with many different religious viewpoints as Brothers. They are correct.
Jesus did not say to us, "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another - as long as he goes to the same church you do, or if he belongs to the same political party."
In Romans 13: 8 -10 Jesus said "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fullfilled the law
In John 13: 34, 35 Jesus said "A new commandment I give unto you, that you love one another as I have loved you.â€
Does “love one another†mean we should only love Baptists, or Methodists or some self appointed splinter preacher who makes a living by selling hatred literature.
Yet one anti-Masonic writer claims that this toleration is the blackest sin of Masonry. Toleration, he says, "springs from the pits of hell and from the father of lies, Lucifer."
When you consider what intolerance has produced in this world, the Inquisition, the massacre of the inhabitants of Jerusalem by the Crusaders, the burning of Protestants at the stake, the horrors of Hitler, the mass murders of Stalin, the "killing fields" of Cambodia -- it is hard to believe that toleration springs from the devil.