[sitetest]

Dear redgolum,

"Remember also, the first Christian body to declare freemasons out of bounds was not the Vatican, it was the Lutheran synods of what is now Germany."

I knew that many orthodox Christian groups have condemned membership in Masonry, including Lutherans, but I didn't realize that the Lutherans did this so early. When did the Lutherans first take notice of Masonry and forbid membership?

Thanks,


sitetest

[redgolum]

Sitetest,
It was in the early 1700's. Partially because of some of the stuff coming out of Prussia at the time. Which is why when the Prussian Union started (both the forced merger of Calvinism and Lutheran synods and the unification of Germany), many Lutherans fled the German states to Russia and the US.