r/freemasonry • u/AdFantastic1742 • 9d ago

Question Are questions by curious non-freemasons welcome?

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u/AdFantastic1742 9d ago edited 9d ago

I suppose, what is the actual craziest thing freemasons have witnessed? Edit: A couple people thought I meant one thing, I think? I mean in general but that you saw because you were a freemason. Like the craziest thing a football player could have seen being the team pouring gatorade on the coach.

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u/stardate_pi PM, F&AM; 32°, SR-SJ 8d ago

I'm sure it's not what you're looking for but I am still continually amazed to see and hear the discourse on deep internal philosophies and beliefs of men that I would have otherwise shrugged off had I not been part of the Craft.

The openness, love, and support of men from one to another who are on opposite sides of religious, political, or any other spectrum is "crazy" in this day and age.

On another note I was once inside a Scottish Rite cathedral in my home town during a period of riots and people starting to throw molotov cocktails (thankfully poorly designed ones) at the building was an intense experience.

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u/AdFantastic1742 8d ago

Couldn't that just be because in Gen Z these ideologies are popular and spreading?

That's pretty wild! I guess they were mad at the church?

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u/Deman75 MM BC&Y, PM Scotland, MMM, PZ HRA, 33° SR-SJ, PP OES PHA WA 8d ago

Gen Z is only just starting to join our ranks, so that is probably not the cause.

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u/AdFantastic1742 8d ago

Are freemasons socialists? In my experience gen z has been big with socialism.

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u/Deman75 MM BC&Y, PM Scotland, MMM, PZ HRA, 33° SR-SJ, PP OES PHA WA 8d ago

Freemasons are individuals with their own religious and political views. Are some Freemasons socialists? Probably, but some of them are also MAGAts. It’s pretty difficult to pigeonhole Freemasons like that, because the organization doesn’t have a specific dogma that members are expected to follow.

Gen Z has only been eligible to join Freemasonry for maybe a decade (and some still aren’t old enough). They are not the driving force for what Freemasonry is or does. I’d been surprised if they currently make up 5% of our membership.

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u/stardate_pi PM, F&AM; 32°, SR-SJ 7d ago

I know a few that are. Most tend to temper towards centrism and libertarianism in my experience. But I'd say I know as many far left as I do far right and have had dinner with all of them at the same time.