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6. I'm a son of a son of a Shriner... (there's the seed of a Jimmy Buffet song there somewhere)
Mon Apr 25, 2016, 03:58 PM
Apr 2016

I was concerned for a while that it was some genetic thing, like ear hair, that would just kick-in one day -- like I'd go in the bathroom in the morning to brush my teeth, look in the mirror and think... "damn, I'd look really good in a fez." So far that hasn't happened, thankfully.

Point is, I know a bit of where you're coming from on this. I won't argue with your logic -- only a bit with your conclusion. I've had this conversation with my father. He doesn't like religion either -- maybe not to the same degree as me, but we're on the same page. From what he's said, the masons don't insist on the traditional definition of God. Any acknowledgment of belief in an organizing force you see as being responsible for the creative impulse in human kind will suffice. It doesn't even have to be supernatural or non corporeal. It can be mitochondrial DNA or the human brain, or whatever it is that you consider to be the pan-human thing that makes us builders and shapers of our world. They don't care.

So, just decide if you want to be in the Masons, or not. If you do, when the question is asked "do you believe in God?," just think of JLo, or the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Christopher Hitchens sitting on a throne made of fused crucifixes (a la Game of Thrones), Grace Slick, or whatever you like and say "Why, yes... yes I do."

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