Freemasonry is What??!!

Since I joined Freemasonry a year ago, I have heard it called a cult, religioun, and a devil worshipping sect. This pretty much blows my mind, but we must look at the conspiracy theorists called "Anti-Masons".

Lets first look at conspiracy theorists...well, should I say much more....tend to be people who have limited goals in their life. Albeit, many are extremely intelligent, but are usually fueled by a need to accomplish something in their lives that lacks substance. One particular Anti-Mason, who I will remain nameless, logged on a forum board, Freemason Pride. He began attempting to devise an elaborate statement on why anti-masons are devil worshipers and pagans. He included something between Freudian terminology and Greek mythology. Now, the young man is highly intelligent, but borders the line between paranoid schizophrenia and a simple delusional disorder. In addition, devil worship and paganism is very much different. The devil, Satan, is pretty much specific to the Christian and Jewish religion. And to be a devil worshiper is creating a sub-religion from one of the main religions. Paganism is very much different and does not denote devil worship. As you can see, I am trying to make this simple to explain, maybe too simple.

For being a cult, this would require the people to worship a belief as a religion. Lets look at the definitions of a cult per Websters Online Dictionary. The main theme is religion. Well, Freemasons are comprised of people of different religions. America is founded through the premise of Freedom of Religion. In our lodge, we have the Christian Holy Bible as everyone in the lodge is Christian. However, many lodges have several bibles signifying a group's faith...ie....Koran and the Holy Bible. Now, there is a loose definition that does not fit the rest of the cult criteria and that is a devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work. If you consider a devotion to help others as a criteria for a cult, then yes, Freemasonry would fall under that definition. However, as for the conventional cult/occult, Freemasonry is not. It specifically denotes that it should and will not interfere with religious, political, and family as these are the primary importance's in your life.

Devil Worshipers cannot be Freemasons. As the people