The Freemasons are coming!
Ted Olsen at Christianity Today says the campaign of Evangelicals against secret societies in the 1800's was a bust and they declined on their own. [It was actually a presidential campaign issue too.] My response: maybe the campaign did work by keeping potential members from joining. He thinks that perhaps our churches' current social reform campaigns are doomed to irrelevance also. He doesn't name them though. Abortion? Global warming? So it was a vapid article. But the fire was lit under the Freemason pot and they are commenting like mad hornets. It's fun to read how innocent they claim to be. Personally, I've known a marriage sacrificed out of loyalty to Freemasonry over Jesus.
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Your right about the Anti-Masonic party, its origin was less dubious than a Christian push to eradicate it.
I don't consider you a threat to me, but I would never consider joining the Masons either. The Masons remind me of the Scientologists who also claim you can keep your religion and be a Scientologist at the same time, but they claim the deeper philosophy. The issue is whether Jesus's claim to divinity and salvation are true or not. Jesus + anything else is incompatible with the Jesus of the Bible.
God is good
jpu