Quote: (08-15-2018 09:45 AM)Wreckingball Wrote:
Quote: (08-09-2018 12:42 PM)Easy_C Wrote:
Mason and Catholic are mutually exclusive. It's considered an automatic excommunication if a Catholic joins the Masons.
Maybe the second sentence is correct, but the first one is not. The majority of masons I know are catholic or have strong catholic influences.
Just because they try to pass themselves off as such doesn't mean it's actually correct. Excommunication means that you are considered apart from the church and completely cut off; since this is considered to be a spiritual matter as much as it is human perception this remains true whether or not they attend mass or try to pass themselves off as Catholic.
In other words continuing to wear the uniform after you get kicked out of the armed services doesn't make you a soldier. This is no different.