On 30 Aug 2004, at 08:53 PM, Keith Helgesen wrote:
I believe the Freemasons, for example forbid discussions on religion or politics at meetings.
Uh, that would be pretty odd of them, considering they are a religious political organization.
Yes and no. While the basic credo of the Freemasons is connected to the acknowledgment of a supreme deity, and while many of the lodges are pretty specific about who/what that is, the organization is pretty non-religious and the religion observed is more "deist" than "theist," if you know what I mean.
Besides that, most of the masons I've known have used the lodge more as a place for duffers to hang out and find drinking buddies than anything else. While my AD&D world has a God of drink & excess (among other things), that's not generally considered one of the aspects of most of the currently popular gods. (Except in some frats, but that's also another reality).
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