Posted on 09/20/2009 10:37:51 AM PDT by NYer
No rings or motorcycles? Count me out.
I was wondering if I could join the Mummers and wear the clown suits and play the banjo in parades.
The other option is joing the Shriners cause those little cars they drive in parades are pretty cool.
The Shriners actually do a great job with Shriners Children’s Hospital.
Someone has a blog where they opine that “Government Motors is a Shirner Conspiracy.”
The Shriners were apparently an offshoot of the Masons/Illuminati.
The U.S. has anti-Catholic forces present including the liberal American Catholic Church and stinking liberal anti-Catholic catholic universities like Notre Dame.
Pope Leo XIII im sure was a nice well-meaning man. But the fact remains, he was an Italian who became a Monarch. He openly disagreed with freedom of speech and thought and was ill equipped to understand the uniqueness on the USA.
Ill stick with Masons, Ethan Allen, Edmund Burke, John Claypoole, William Daws, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock, John Paul Jones, Robert Livingston, Paul Revere, Colonel Benjamin Tupper, and George Washington.
The popes were upset that there was a movement they couldnt direct. Masons are built upon the idea that if a group of men believe in something higher than themselves, that its better to seek the common morality, instead of bickering over petty sectarian details.
York Rite or Scottish Rite?
:-)
Me? I’m just a York Rite. I’m not allowed to know the double dare, super secret, pinky swear stuff.
:-)
And I did go to chuch this morning.
Leo XIII wasn’t a monarch, unless you count his leadership of the Catholic Church. The last of the territory of the Papal States was taken by force by the Italian nationalist on this very day in 1870, during the papacy of Blessed Pius IX.
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But it’s to be expected that the Catholic church, or any other, might not like the Masons. Masons are specifically dedicated to avoiding sectarian issues, and concentrating on improving relations between ALL men of faith. Even different faiths. The important thing to masons is that members acknowledge existence of God. This seems to be a good starting place for good men of all faiths to improve each other as men.
“there is a difference between British/US Freemasonry and the Continental European variety”
True,, very true. And i for one thank God that our founders were inspired by Masonic ideals. It served us well until the Socialists took over.
If the Catholic church wanted to do something good, they would do better to forbid members from being democrats rather than forbidding that they become masons, IMO.
I always count on you, and again, you did not disappoint!
“unless you count his leadership of the Catholic Church”
Thats what i meant. Despite not claiming a state beyond the Vatican, it’s a monarchy in all but name. A human claiming to represent God, and direct the activities of other men, here on earth. That is straight from all european monarchies.
A guy just arriving from Mars would have a difficult time telling a pope from any other royal.
Well until that little issue that led to the formation of the Anti-Masonic Party.
Okay, I reflected. Now get out!
There are no “34th degree Masons”. 33 is as high as it goes, unless of course you are dealing with a paranoid, then there are all sorts of higher degree, sinister Masons.
If they did that they had better put all of the churches in Boston up for sale.
Well for that matter they had better put out feelers to the Southern Baptist to see if they can send over a few thousand ministers to get ordained.
Uncle Vanya, I think you better check the expiration dates on your meds.
Okay, thanks for the information. I will stay a Lutheran (LCMS) and a Mason.
Gee! And I was just thinking about converting to Catholicism!
The Masonic Lodge is bad according to the Catholics, but the Knights of Columbus are peachy keen? We have more than a wee bit of hypocrisy going here dont we?
The Knights of Columbus started as mutual insurance company.
How so? The KofC do not take bloodthirsty oaths nor do they act as if God is an indifferent deity. Very different.
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