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Freemasons and World Religions
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I will have to hunt down my info about the above picture. I know it is of the late Roman Catholic
Cardinal O’Connor in NYC with some of his Freemason buddies, on a red carpet no less.
Here is my Eastern Orthodox Freemasons web page
I add here some links to other web sites I found online, just for further reference.
(I do not make all the same conclusions they do)
Jews
and Freemasons
tied
together @ the Communist era
Freemasonry
desires union of all World Religions
Mason/Mormon Endowment Comparison
First Five Presidents of Mormonism were Masons
Jehovah Witness - Christian Scientists and Masonry
It is
telling that as the founders of Mormonism and the Jehovah Witnesses were both
brother Freemasons and that we can also see their places of worship being right
next to each other. In this aerial photo we see the Mormon’s on the left half
(the darker parking lot) and their immediate neighbor on the right half being
the Jehovah Witnesses (the lighter parking lot). They are side by side each
other. No big surprise here.
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The Roman Catholic Church
Freemason Takeover of the Vatican
Many give a stirring case that after the Great Schism the Popes were giving their blessing for the Knights Templar. These men, who were the Frankish Freemasonic Crusaders, made fortresses out of stone grew more and more in antichrist ways. Finally they even went against the Popes and going their own away, resurfacing in England as Freemasonry. At one stage Catholics were banned from being Freemasons, but the two are no longer seen as incompatible providing Catholics belong to a British branch of the Masons. Critics believe this is partly due to the influence of members of the Brotherhood within the Catholic church.
Roman Catholic Archbishop Emanuel Milingo: “We are now in the last days of Satan’s reign and he is working overtime through his agents to complete the takeover of the world. His agents are nothing less than the Freemasons who have permeated to the very heart of Christ’s Church. It is the task of Freemasons to lull Christians, especially priests, into believing that the devil and his demons do not exist. Satan plays with priests like toys when they do not believe in him. After the last war young Freemasons were placed in seminaries around the world. These agents of satan were waiting for their time to come. … The Freemason antichrists became priests for this purpose. They aim to take religious power throughout the world, just as they have taken economic and political power.” (Powers of Darkness, Powers of Light, Cornwell, 1991).
Whether or not you believe that any Pope has been a Freemason might depend largely on perspective. Hopefully the idea of being an official Freemason would be repulsive to popes, with all the blood oaths and doctrines of lying, etc. If anyone participates with Freemason ideals or takes part in any of their dastardly deeds it is as if they are standing right beside them. None of us can have it both ways. In the case of popes it is unquestionable that the Crusaders were, at least in part, Freemasons. So, if you ask me, any pope that would be connected with that shambles is guilty by association. Likewise, with our modern world being so completely involved with Freemasons this means that all recent popes are accountable with Freemasons in one way or another as well. I say that such a conclusion, that the popes are now Freemasons, is not too far fetched. But then the same goes for all of us in our modern military industrial society. There might also be something to the Freemason handshake of the Pope in the following linked
People Magazine report. It would not be surprising (with all the heresies and atrocities down through the ages) that some pope would have departed so far from Christianity to actually become a full-fledged satanic Freemason. If not, then there can be little doubt that Roman Catholic clergy today are having far too close relations with Freemasons.
In 1974 Cardinal Seper, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, signed a document that stated, in part, that “The Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith... has ruled that Canon 2335 no longer automatically bars a Catholic from membership of Masonic groups... And so, a Catholic who joins the Freemasons is excommunicated only if the policies and actions of the Freemasons in his area are known to be hostile to the Church ...”
Baron Worley, Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado became a Freemason and is a priest in the Catholic Church, being the rector of a parish in Greeley, Colorado.
Fr. Charles E. Maier O.C.R., in the Catholic Church, missioner with the Navajo Nation in Arizona and as a pastor in small parish development in California also became a Freemason. He has a hospital ministry as a chaplain and therapist, working with alcoholism and substance-abuse patients.
The Freemason Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with the Pope to discuss the Global Economy. The Vatican is recognized as its own nation with its own bank, this equates with participation in the masonic antichrist monetary system of the world. Here is a
report.
The following link from another web site explains how Pope John XXIII was a
Practicing Freemason.
This next web page from a Freemason lodge says that there is no doubt that Pope Pius IX was himself a Freemason.
Below is a Catholic church in Zamosciu, Poland, like a Freemason All-Seeing Eye.
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Below is a Catholic bishop in a Polish cathedral with a Freemason All-Seeing Eye.
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The Baptist Church
Baptist leaders have referred to Freemasonry as “an ungodly brotherhood of satanic darkness”; “there is an inherent incompatibility between Masonry and the Christian faith”; “there is a great danger that the Christian Mason may find himself compromising his allegiance to Jesus.” (The Baptist Union of Scotland, 1965).
These famous Baptists have been Freemasons: Herschell Harold Hobbs, president of the Southern Baptist Convention from 1961-63; J. B. Lawrence - Vice president of the Southern Baptist Convention and Secretary-Treasurer of the Home Mission Board for 30 years; Dr. Leon McBeth, longtime professor of church history of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth, Texas; George W. Truett, pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas and president of the Southern Baptist Convention and Baptist World Alliance; John W. Dowdy, D.D., Pastor First Baptist Church Guthrie, Oklahoma; Rev. Lansing Burrows, American Civil War hero and Secretary of the Southern Baptist Convention; Dr. James P. Wesberry, Former Executive Director and Editor of the Southern Baptist Publication “Sunday” and too many more to mention.
Church of England
Archbishop of Canterbury Geoffrey Fisher a Mason
The
Church of England says that there is, “A number of very fundamental reasons to question the
compatibility of Freemasonry with Christianity.” (General Synod, London,
1987 ~ where several members of the committee were Masons!)
Recently the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Rowan Williams) has been forced to apologize to Britain's 330,000 Freemasons after he said that their beliefs were incompatible with Christianity and that he had rejected them from senior posts in his diocese, as can be read at this
link.
Here are some Episcopal Freemasons: Bishop James Freeman, the Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., was the Freemason who first conceived and began the construction of the National Cathedral; Elmer N. Schmuck was also a Freemason who served as Episcopal Bishop of Wyoming from 1929 until his death in 1936; Rev. John Ward was first of the Episcopalian faith to enter the state of Missouri and organize his people.
Lutherans
Lutheran priests in Norway are hired freemasons in Vatican orders.
“Masonry
amounts to idolatry.” (Missouri Synod, 1959).
Many in the ELCA Lutheran Church are Freemasons.
These famous Lutherans were are all Freemasons: Carl Richard Chindblom; Adolph Olson Eberhart; Gustav Holden Helgerson; Albert Robert Imle; George E. Q. Johnson; and many more such as Rev. Charles T. Aikens, who served as President of the Lutheran Synod of Eastern Pennsylvania.
Billy Graham Association
Jim Shaw, ex-33° Mason
– the highest ranking Freemason to defect
writes about Billy
Graham being at his 33°
initiation ceremony. Huntington
House refused to print his book co-authored
with Tom McKenney unless they
took out Billy Graham's name on pg. 104, and
substituted a general
description. (See The Deadly Deception, p. 104-105.)
Only Freemasons, and those closely tied to them, are allowed to
attend these initiations
Presbyterians
These are a couple famous Presbyterian Freemasons: Peter C. Marshall, pastor of churches in Georgia and Washington, DC, chaplain of the U.S. Senate, author of “Mr. Jones, Meet the Master” and his biography is entitled “A Man Called Peter;” Rev. Hugh I. Evans, who served as national head of the Presbyterian Church.
“Masonry
is a religious institution and as such is definitely anti-Christian.”
(Presbyterian General Assembly, Rochester, 1942).
Methodists
These leaders are examples of Methodist Freemasons: Bishop William F. Anderson, one of the most important leaders of the Methodist Church; Rev. Bishop Carl J. Sanders of the United Methodist Church; The Reverend Louis R. Gant, District Superintendent The United Methodist Church; Boaz, Hiram Abiff - Bishop of the Methodist Church, one of the first presidents of Texas Wesleyan University; John Wesley Lord - Bishop, United Methodist Church.
(Methodists have a host of Masons in their ranks, as this quote from their official explains)
“Good
Masons make good churchmen. Every clergyman can testify to the truth of this.
They make loyal and sacrificing patriots. Our colonial history supplies the
proof of this assertion. All Masons are not ardent church members but neither
are all church members ardent for the church. Yet the proof is clearly and
abundantly evident that the Masonic fraternity is an influence for good in
personal and community life.
“Freemasonry
has always been a friend and ally of religion. Religious people have found a
congenial fellowship within the Lodge and have not been embarrassed by what
takes place there. In many respects, Freemasonry may be called a religious
institution owing its ‘origin and morality to the religious element’.”
The Rev. Bishop Fred Pierce
Corson
Methodist Bishop of
President of the World Methodist
Council
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