While posting last night, it was well past more normal bed time. Also, I am about as far from an Evangelist as you can get. I believe the differences in the world's major religions are more differences in interpretation than anything. I had just read some of the posts and gotten a bit carried away. It was a reaction to my interpretation of those. But, I have trouble wrapping my head around the thoughts of Masonry and polytheism or religions without a concept of deity in the same sentence.
I probably didn't do a good job of articulating my thoughts last night, and I believe I am still having trouble doing so. For that, I am sorry. Maybe elsewhere ritual is different, but in my state, the scripture recited when a candidate enters a Lodge for the first time to the scripture read during his Masonic funeral comes from one place.