It comes down to choice. You have the CHOICE to join the fraternity that of which requires you to believe in God. It doesn’t choose your faith or it’s requirements for you nor force you to pick which or what to follow. The way you put it, the fraternity should also not allow it’s membership to eat meat on a Friday during lent when they are serving steak at a banquet they hold on said Friday and any of 1000s of other specific rules. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
“The way you put it, the fraternity should also not allow it’s membership to eat meat on a Friday during lent when they are serving steak at a banquet they hold on said Friday and any of 1000s of other specific rules. It’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Hey, we disagree, that’s fine. And we aren’t talking about traditional dietary disciplines. We are talking about an organization who requires faith to be a member, and then allows membership even if that faith SPECIFICALLY forbids its adherents to become members of the group in question. It’s not a question of only allowing folks whose faith is practiced in an orthodox manner, it’s a question of a particular faith officially forbidding its members to belong to a specific group, and that group allowing them as members anyhow. To me, that would seem to defeat the purpose of having a requirement of faith in the first place.
Are LDS still barred from belonging to certain lodges?
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