Freemasonry is Evil...

I remember many sermons about lodges and Freemasonry when I was a kid, but is that still a major problem in the church? I don’t know anyone who is a lodge member these days, although it’s probably because most lodge halls are just and excuse to have a bar where people can smoke indoors.

[christian cerna] well, i have heard that many masons have infiltrated the churches, and are even church leaders. so yeah, i think the topic is still relevant, since heresies and false doctrines will always be something that Satan tries to use against the true church of christ.

I’m sure that’s possible, and I imagine it’s a cultural thing. I don’t see many lodge types in the Midwest, but in the South and along the New England coast, I’ve seen a few more. It just isn’t the ‘hot topic’ that it use to be, so I was surprised to see it come up again after so many years.

When there are Freemasonry members in Church leadership it is a BIG deal in my opinion. A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

A very good book [with references/footnotes] is The Question of Freemasonry and our Founding Fathers by David Barton. It gives a decent short history of how Freemasonry started, and how it morphed into the secular cult that we see today. It gives a very good progression of Freemasonry and is written from a Biblical foundation rather than a secular one. It also gives distinction between American Freemasonry and European Freemasonry.

I have had to deal with Freemasonry roots on both my paternal and maternal sides of the family. My grandfather was a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason. His father was a mason: And it was his joining Freemasonry in Illinois that caused that part of the family to be kicked out of the Lutheran Church… after it had been there since the 1500’s.