This Rome Reports video provides a succinct explanation of why the Catholic Church has opposed Freemasonry for centuries.
It’s timely, given the release this month of Dan Brown’s latest potboiler, The Lost Symbol, which reportedly portrays Masonic beliefs in a largely sympathetic light — in contrast to the false and defamatory accusations Brown leveled against the Church in his previous two books, The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons.
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Dan Brown correctly placed Masons or Freemasons in a sympathetic light because they have not lead Inquisitions and tortured and killed hundreds of thousands of people over the centuries.
The Freemasons do not tell a member how to worship, that is up to the individual member. Mason has no stance on religion at all, except that it is required that a potential member believe in a supreme being and the immortality of the soul.
Freemasonry does not put all religions on the same level, except in that all members that meet the requirements, some of which I already stated, and practice tolerance toward all religions.
Freemasons are not anti-clerical. We are peaceable citizens who believe men can gather in unity and brotherly love with men who would otherwise remain at a perpetual distance. Freemasonry seeks to unite, apparently Catholic dogma seeks to divide men.
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