"Have you ever been to a Jewish or Islamic or Sikh or Buddhist lodge? Their Architect of the Universe is different from ours."
1. Last time I checked, the God of Jews was the God of Jesus, and the same as mine, at least.
2. All AF&AM lodges in the United States and England use the Holy Bible. Never been to any other lodges.
3. Lots of groups call themselves masonic and are not.
http://www.freemason.org/cfo/march_april_2001/landmarks.htm
says that:
"It is a Landmark that a Book of the Law shall constitute an indispensable part of the furniture of every Lodge. It is not absolutely a requirement that the Old and New Testaments be used. The Book of the Law is that volume which, by the religion of the country, is believed to contain the revealed will of the Great Architect of the Universe. Hence, in all Lodges in Christian countries, the Book of the Law is composed of the Old and New Testaments; in a country where Judaism is the prevailing faith, the Old Testament alone would be sufficient; and in a Mohammedan countries, and among Mohammedan Freemasons, the Koran may be substituted. Freemasonry does not attempt to interfere with the particular religious faith of its disciples, except so far as it relates to the belief in the existence of God, and what necessarily results from that belief. The Book of Law is to the Speculative Freemason his spiritual Trestleboard; without this he cannot labor; whatever he belies to be the revealed will of the Great Architect constitutes for him in his hours of speculative labor, to be the rule and guide of his conduct. The Landmark, therefore, requires that a Book of the Law, a religious code of some kind as the revealed will of God, shall form an essential part of the furniture of every Lodge."
I should have paid more attention to the wording.
"Freemasonry does not attempt to interfere with the particular religious faith of its disciples"
I do not consider myself a disciple of Freemasonry. Geez. Il Papa spelled it out pretty good. Sigh. I haven't been to confession in a while anyway.