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To continue, though, agnosticism does not include "I do not know and it cannot be known." The moment you say that something cannot be known, you have chosen a dogma.

Agnosticism and its cousins are all about doubt--they are about doubting my own infallibility.

The stonecutters were not Master Masons as we understand the term. They may have been well paid compared to other stone workers, but they were still schlubs. They had little prestige or authority. The directors of the project were born to the social stratum. The actual stonecutters had no chance...

Bro. Martin is a member of a Lodge under UGLE. I would think that he would know UGLE's actual policies. Of course, UGLE would probably like to know if any other GL is using its name or claiming some sort of specific certificates authorized by or from UGLE.

The Masters of the medieval masons started out doing grunt work. They started out as apprentices. Before the medieval period, the only way to be the equivalent of a "Master" was to be born to it. Thus, the fusion of Masonry as we know it, where the Apprentice can become the Master, did not exist...

The Romans had distinct social separations between the planners/engineers/architects on the one hand and the grubs who actually handled the stone or poured the concrete on the other. Labor had no dignity for the Romans, only directing labor did. You can have amazing projects directed by an elite...

You mean, like Masons who argue that Christians shouldn't be Freemasons or that Freemasonry is a religion?

If one wishes to stretch "definitions" enough, then everything is a religion. If everything is a religion, then nothing is a religion.

A case could be made that "Philosophical Operative Freemasonry" could not have existed until the European High Middle Ages. Before this time, the stone-stackers were deemed unworthy of intellectual consideration, and stone-stacking was just a lesser pursuit, like all other menial tasks. It may...

It's an issue of which culture is seen as superior to the other. A Western cultural imperialist, since we uncover our heads to show respect (to God, for example), would be outraged at someone covering his head in a situation where heads are to be uncovered. The Jewish cultural tradition (which...

Remember, if you dare to disagree with the One True Dogma, you are no longer "Brotherly". You must agree that "Lucifer" MUST refer to Satan, particularly in Isaiah, or you are not and cannot be "Brotherly".

Yet another yarn of sophistry designed to tell Christians that we're not "true Freemasons".

"What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn"--Rabbi Hillel the Elder, before AD 10.

That places Freemasonry as something better than any other religion. Therefore, according to this, whomsoever loves truth must adhere to Freemasonry and abandon any religion.

I have noted in my research that cowans were admitted to some Operative Masonic lodges in Scotland at around the time of the foundation of Speculative Masonry. The prohibition seems to have been uneven, possibly driven by local economic conditions. However, from what I've read, early Masonic...

That is not a reference to Satan. It is well known that any connection between that and Satan is nothing but a folk superstition with absolutely no evidence behind it. I notice how you intentionally refused to quote the full context. If you do not blasphemously play paper dolls with Scripture...

Where? I want to see it laid out and not subject to "interpretation". Otherwise, even this claim is just opinion about Scripture, not a statement of Scripture.

Thanks. Long essay, short mention. Was wondering what, if anything at all, the on-the-ground historical activities of the real Knights of Malta have to do with the on-the-ground present-day activities of the Masonic appendant organization.

But what has the real order of Malta to do with the Masonic one? This isn't addressed at all.

Two groups wish to classify Freemasonry as a religion: Those who wish to destroy Freemasonry and those who have no religion of their own and try to make Freemasonry their substitute.