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<blockquote data-quote="finn" data-source="post: 346374" data-attributes="member: 22452"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Big buck and some of the others. I am a master mason and have been since 2001. I am also a christen and have been all my adult life. As a DI at Paris Island there was a rumor that to be a senior D.I. you had to be a mason that was later proven to not be true. I believe this rumor came about because a disproportionate number of the Sgt's Maj. was masons, but the point is it was not true. later in my career I became very good friends with a couple of masons, and I use to tease them about secret hand shakes etc. and in jest I said something to the effect that they could get out of tickets by being a Mason (ha-ha) With a very stoic look on his face, my friend turned to me and said yes it dose every day. Thinking I had trapped him or fooled him in to revealing some trade craft I howled with laughter and shouted I knew it. In response he answered that the Masonic embalm on my truck reminds me (ME NOT YOU) that I am a mason and that I don't want to do anything to bring discredit to the lodge and the brethren. Humbled I looked more to my left and right to learn more about it. The idea is to make a good man better. I went in to free masonry as a christen and would not betray my faith in the lord my god for any reason. I would ask you when the last time you were passed by some one was driving 100 MPH with a mason embalmed on their vehicle. What specific transgression has a mason ever done you in the name of free masonry? As christens we become targets of secular society and every transgression is pointed at and ridiculed. but being christens dose not make us Christ like but is simply a profession that we desire to be like Christ and being masons dose not make us perfect we simply desire to be better men. as for this Dr. you quote, don't know him, never read his book but I would say don't take his word find out for your self. Beware the false profit. </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="finn, post: 346374, member: 22452"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Big buck and some of the others. I am a master mason and have been since 2001. I am also a christen and have been all my adult life. As a DI at Paris Island there was a rumor that to be a senior D.I. you had to be a mason that was later proven to not be true. I believe this rumor came about because a disproportionate number of the Sgt's Maj. was masons, but the point is it was not true. later in my career I became very good friends with a couple of masons, and I use to tease them about secret hand shakes etc. and in jest I said something to the effect that they could get out of tickets by being a Mason (ha-ha) With a very stoic look on his face, my friend turned to me and said yes it dose every day. Thinking I had trapped him or fooled him in to revealing some trade craft I howled with laughter and shouted I knew it. In response he answered that the Masonic embalm on my truck reminds me (ME NOT YOU) that I am a mason and that I don’t want to do anything to bring discredit to the lodge and the brethren. Humbled I looked more to my left and right to learn more about it. The idea is to make a good man better. I went in to free masonry as a christen and would not betray my faith in the lord my god for any reason. I would ask you when the last time you were passed by some one was driving 100 MPH with a mason embalmed on their vehicle. What specific transgression has a mason ever done you in the name of free masonry? As christens we become targets of secular society and every transgression is pointed at and ridiculed. but being christens dose not make us Christ like but is simply a profession that we desire to be like Christ and being masons dose not make us perfect we simply desire to be better men. as for this Dr. you quote, don’t know him, never read his book but I would say don’t take his word find out for your self. Beware the false profit. [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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