mecca
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I agree with this.For religious fundamentalist types, it is very easy to assume all the masons must be evil. (not a shot at you, Lady..... I already wrote that before you posted- I don't see you as a fundamentalist)
You can prove such-and-such person was a mason but that doesn't necessarily discredit them. The freemason stuff is complicated.
Do they have super secret ultimate knowledge? I doubt it. Their beliefs are probably not that different than New Age stuff except maybe a fancier.
It is like a club but.... i don't even think they're a single club. I think there are lodges and such.... which are independent of each other.
In any case, I don't think all the masons are necessarily on the same side. If you study masons and history.... I think different masons fought sincerely for totally different sides. I think there are- or at least have been- different sides and factions within these mason groups. Not all the masons were evil.
Plus I don't even think masonry and the secret societies were even originally evil. Look at what happened to Socrates. If you tell the masses too much.... they very likely will kill you and you'll be targeted by the power structure. So if you are Plato or you are like Plato and Socrates..... it would be perfectly logical to form secret societies where you can discuss things without being targeted by elites and masses. I think that was the original purpose of the secret societies- a way to preserve knowledge. They were supposed to be like guardians protecting to society- as Plato described in the Republic. I think Plato and Socrates.... they probably had to do with that stuff but.... I seriously do not believe they were evil. They were trying to preserve knowledge and philosophy.