Khan_Sama wrote:
I don't doubt Masons have indulged in sinister activities, however. Take propaganda due for example. I just don't find any reason they were the norm rather than the extremely rare exception, if at all.
my grandfather broadly hinted that his local masonic temple sanctioned the burning-down of a disgraced member's house [for punishment], ages ago when he was young. but i don't think they do this sort of thing regularly, but there are other things that they do far more often that sound sinister to me, such as influence the goings-on at various governmental and non-governmental organizations, for example- when my father, brothers and me were in the military, the masonic members were commonly observed to get the promotions first and the discipline last, if ever. i have heard more than once, "he's a mason, don't cross him."