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Summary: This posting describes the most common errors, lies and misunderstandings about Freemasonry. It should be read by anyone who is interested in historical facts and documented evidence regarding Freemasonry.
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Anti-Masonry Frequently Asked Questions
compiled by Trevor W. McKeown
version 2.9
Last modified: 5 May, 2004

<http://freemasonry.bcy.ca/anti-masonry/anti-masonry_faq.html>

The Anti-masonry FAQ is intended to address issues of ignorance or 
malicious misinformation. It contains verifiable and documented 
historical events and facts. 

Anti-masonic writings, with a history dating to sixteenth century 
England, can be grouped into two broad catagories: accusations of 
anti-Christian or satanic objectives and accusations of political and 
social manipulation. Both of these catagories rely on fraud, unfounded 
paranoia, historical hoaxes, logical fallacy, and often the writings of 
the 18th century anti-mason, John Robison; the confessed fraud, Leo 
Taxil; and the often misquoted 19th century masonic author, Albert Pike. 

Contents

I ORGANIZATIONS 
        1. Who are the Illuminati?
        2. Does the Trilateral Commission control the freemasons?
        3. What is the Trilateral Commission?
        4. Who are the Bilderburgers?
        5. What was the P2 Lodge?
        6. What was Palladium?
        7. Is the Club of Rome an Illuminati front?
        8. Did high-ranking mason, Albert Pike found the Ku Klux Klan?
        9. Isn't the Priory of Sion a masonic front? 
       10. What about the Alta Vendita? 
       11. What about the Rex Deus dynasty's influence on Freemasonry?
       12. What is the Council on Foreign Relations?
       13. What was the Rhodes-Milner Round Table? 
       14. What is the Belmont Brotherhood? 
       15. What is the Skull and Bones? 
       16. What is the Royal Dragon Court?
II SYMBOLS 
        1. Why do freemasons use the Satanic pentagram/pentacle?
        2. Are freemasons satanists or luciferians?
        3. Is the eye and pyramid a masonic symbol?
III PEOPLE 
        1. Who was Elias Ashmole?
        2. Who was Francis Bacon?
        3. Who was Abbe Barruel?
        4. Who was Cagliostro?
        5. Who was Albert Pike?
        6. Who was John Robison?
        7. Who was Leo Taxil?
        8. Who was Adam Weishaupt?
        9. Was [insert name] a Mason?
IV FREEMASONRY 
        1. Is a 33rd degree freemason more important than a 3rd degree 
mason?
        2. What does A.F.& A.M. mean?
        3. Is Freemasonry anti-religious?
        4. Is Freemasonry a racist organization?
        5. Do freemasons worship Satan?
        6. Is it true that members can never quit?
        7. Is Freemasonry male chauvinistic?
        8. Does Freemasonry have a secret political agenda?
        9. Well, is Freemasonry liberal or conservative?
       10. Is an Egyptian mystical resurrection ritual the lost secret 
           of Freemasonry? 
       11. Then you've got something to do with the Grail, right?
V HISTORY 
        1. What was the Bavarian Illuminati?
        2. Weren't George Washington, every USA president, the first USA
           Congress and the entire Continental Army all Freemasons?
        3. Didn't Edward VI abolish Freemasonry?
        4. Isn't Freemasonry the same as Rosicrucianism?
        5. What was the Rite of Strict Observance?
        6. Who were the Unknown Superiors?
VI HOAXES AND FRAUDS 
        1. What were the Protocols of the Elders of Zion?
        2. Was Albert Pike the leader of Universal Freemasonry?
        3. Does A.L. mean "In the year of Lucifer"?
        4. Isn't the Masonic Bible supposed to be Albert Pike's 
           "Morals and Dogma"?
        5. Didn't George Washington renounce Freemasonry?
        6. Doesn't the "Big Book of Conspiracies explain all this?
        7. Didn't John F. Kennedy oppose Freemasonry?
        8. Doesn't the satanic design of Washington, DC's streetplan 
           prove that there's a masonic conspiracy?
        9. Aren't the freemasons plotting to rebuild the Temple in
           Jerusalem?
       10. Didn't Adolf Hitler praise Freemasonry? 
       11. But wasn't the Nazi party founded by the freemasons? 
       12. What is the masonic testament? 
VII ARE THE MASONS RESPONSIBLE FOR [insert event] ? 
        1. Did the freemasons cause the French Revolution?
        2. Did the freemasons kill Captain Morgan?
        3. Did the freemasons kill Pope John Paul I?
        4. Did the freemasons kill John F. Kennedy?
        5. Was Jack the Ripper a freemason?
        6. Is Freemasonry corrupt?
VIII RELIGION 
        1. Is Freemasonry a religion?
        2. Are freemasons really Gnostics?
        3. What is Gnosticism?
        4. Do "Lucifer" and "Satan" refer to the same entity?
        5. Isn't Freemasonry deist?
        6. Doesn't Freemasonry promote natural religion?
        7. Doesn't Freemasonry promise a path to salvation?
        8. Are freemasons really Noahides?
        9. Doesn't Freemasonry promote ecumenism or syncreticism? 
       10. Is Freemasonry a form of Hermetism? 
       11. But aren't freemasons really pagans? 
       12. Is Freemasonry a mystery cult? 
       13. Is Freemasonry a form of Templarism? 
       14. Isn't Freemasonry cabalistic? 
       15. Is Jacques de Molay the Second Messiah of Freemasonry? 
       16. Has Freemasonry become part of the New Age movement? 
       17. Isn't Freemasonry Enochian? 
       18. Isn't Freemasonry the outgrowth of some Second Temple 
           Jewish sect? 
       19. Aren't the freemasons parodying Judaism? 
       20. Is Freemasonry a revival of Essenism? 
       21. Does Freemasonry promote indifferentism? 
       22. Are freemasons anti-atheists? 
       
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