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That's amusing, the Operatives openly admits cowans--of course, only those cowans who are Freemasons, and certainly not Cowans. No, I am not accusing them of doing anything improper. Their list of professions includes the cowan (Scottish word for rough mason).

It seemed not unreasonable until it go to "This would be a stunning reset of the prophetic clock", at which point I realized that this was not a didactic (informative) essay but a political polemic essay.

The UK actually has a society/association of Freemasons who are also operative masons.

Are you maintaining, then that religion can include things like Pol Pot's "year zero", the "great leap forward", "the cultural revolution" and other purely atheistic movements that caused a great deal of death and suffering AND were meant to absolve the psyches of the perpetrators completely...

Because Pol Pot wasn't an atheist?

Trying to prove that Christianity is incompatible with Freemasonry and refusing to take the word of Brothers, given in good faith, that it is compatible with Freemasonry, brothers who are both Freemasons and Christians is good reason to conclude that someone does not want Christians to be...

Actually, it's quite obvious that we don't all agree that. I agree that it's not a religion, but there are others here who insist that it is--and they're Masons.

That isn't what is meant by "accurate" by those who get fetishistic over "physical LAWS". If it's subject to revision and replacement, it's not some kind of eternal "law", it's just an ephemeral model. At one time, it was a "law" of physics that objects in motions will come to rest. No...

Specifically quote where I stated this and I'll respond. Otherwise, you're just making up straw men to knock over, a cheap rhetorical trick with no value.

Ah, so those who do not consider Freemasonry to be a religion just aren't as deep and true Freemasons as those who do.

I see, so then, Pike is an infallible guide to Freemasonry and every word he says must be taken as literal truth. Why do you have this crusade to turn Freemasonry into some kind of church? This does not say "Freemasonry is a religion." It is using "religion of Freemasonry" to refer to those...

That's been exactly my point the entire time. He wants a fight between Freemasonry and Christianity. He wants Freemasonry to be incompatible with Christianity.

Mayr was always an outsider when it came to philosophy of science. He was, after all, merely a biologist, not one of those semi-divine physicists who innately can speak the Mind of God to an ignorant and benighted world.

Many is the time I wish I could go back in time and tell some seminal author "No! Do not use that term! It will engender more ignorance than it will banish."

"Laws"? Are you not aware that laws can be amended or repealed? I'm being puckish, of course, but getting superstitiously enamored of "laws of physics" because they are "LAWS" (ta-daaaa) is silly. The so-called "laws" of physics are ultimately just approximations and guesses. They are models...

I see, so you accuse me of dishonesty. You must live in a miserable world in which nobody is ever able to misunderstand something and everyone does everything with malicious intent.

I can just as easily way that, if religion and church have become "mainly ritual and dogma", that "religion" has ceased being a religion and that "church" has ceased being a church. Means to end or end in and of itself? Exercise for health or exercise just to exercise? When the means becomes the...

Mayr, on the other hand, stresses that individual things "actually exist", which is why I favor him most. For much of the physical sciences, a "standard error" often does mostly represent what would be commonly considered an "error"--a summation of inaccuracy of measurement (although this breaks...

Why is it so important to you to "prove" that Christians must not be admitted as Freemasons or that they must not become Freemasons? What is the origin of your implacable hostility (no matter how dressed up it might be in pretty terminology)?

If there is a doctrinal conflict between Masonry and Christianity, then no Christian can be a Mason and no Mason can be a Christian, it is that simple. In addition, Christianity is founded upon fire AND water. It was tongues of flame that bestowed the Church upon the Apostles at Pentecost, and...