> On Dec 30, 10:57 am, Matt Yeske wrote:

>> Ted wrote:

>>> On Dec 29, 2:32 pm, anarchicalmodel gmail.com> wrote:

>>>> On Dec 29, 1:14 pm, Ted gmail.com> wrote:

>>

>>>>> On Dec 23, 9:38 am, anarchicalmodel gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>> "The first duty of the reader of this Synopsis is to obey the edicts
>>>>>> of his Grand Lodge. Right or wrong................

>>>>> Quotes from a Freemason.
>>>>> "The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed
>>>>> I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in
>>>>> religion"
>>>>> "The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason."
>>>>> "I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented
>>>>> myself from Christian assemblies."
>>>>> "As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire,
>>>>> I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us,
>>>>> the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it
>>>>> has received various corrupt changes, and I have, with most of the
>>>>> present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity; though
>>>>> it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and
>>>>> think it needless to busy myself with it
>>>>> "If Christian Preachers had continued to teach as Christ and his
>>>>> Apostles did, without Salaries, and as the Quakers now do, I imagine
>>>>> Tests would never have existed; for I think they were invented, not so
>>>>> much to secure Religion itself, as the Emoluments of it. When a
>>>>> religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does
>>>>> not support itself, and God does not care to support it, so that its
>>>>> professors are obliged to call for the help of the civil power, 'tis a
>>>>> sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
>>>>> "The nearest I can make it out, 'Love your Enemies' means, 'Hate your
>>>>> Friends'."
>>>>> "I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father,
>>>>> expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even
>>>>> infinitely above it."
>>>>> "The faith you mention has doubtless its use in the world. I do not
>>>>> desire to see it diminished, nor would I desire to lessen it in any
>>>>> way; but I wish it were more productive of good works than I have
>>>>> generally seen it. I mean real good works, works of kindness, charity,
>>>>> mercy, and public spirit, not holy-day keeping, sermon-hearing, and
>>>>> reading, performing church ceremonies, or making long prayers, filled
>>>>> with flatteries and compliments, despised even by wise men, and much
>>>>> less capable of pleasing the Deity"
>>>>> "If we look back into history for the character of the present sects
>>>>> in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been
>>>>> persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians
>>>>> thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practiced it on
>>>>> one another. The first Protestants of the Church of England blamed
>>>>> persecution in the Romish church, but practiced it upon the Puritans.
>>>>> These found it wrong in the Bishops, but fell into the same practice
>>>>> themselves both here [England]and in New England"
>>>>> "My parents had early given me religious impressions, and brought me
>>>>> through my childhood piously in the dissenting [puritan]way. But I was
>>>>> scarce fifteen, when, after doubting by turns of several points, as I
>>>>> found them disputed in the different books I read, I began to doubt of
>>>>> Revelation itself. Some books against Deism fell into my hands; they
>>>>> were said to be the substance of sermons preached at Boyle's lectures.
>>>>> [Robert Boyle (1627-1691) was a British physicist who endowed the
>>>>> Boyle Lectures for defense of Christianity.]It happened that they
>>>>> wrought an effect on me quite contrary to what was intended by them;
>>>>> for the arguments of the deists, which were quoted to be refuted,
>>>>> appeared to me much stronger than the refutations; in short, I soon
>>>>> became a thorough deist"

>>>> Why do you not include an attribution to all of that quotation?

>>

>>>>http://freemasonrywatch.org/hellfire.html

>>

>>> Haha! That is funny as fuck. Thanks!

>>
>> We can all be allowed to have a sense of humor, but what's so funny? The
>> people that put this up are all paraplegics. Disabled, living off the
>> public tit, if they didn't do this, all they have going for them is the
>> morning soaps. Harmless, they impress no one but each other. Most
>> belong to the FOB, Fraternal Order of Beavers. They know Masons do a lot
>> of good things to a lot of people. They would like to attract new
>> members. It's work for the masons, it's fun for the beavers.
>> Matt

>
> I think these quotes that I posted, most from established masonic
> publications, others from internationally known and respected news
> outlets, help people understand masonry better.