Mimi nataka ku play "devil's advocate" (no pun intended, lol) hapa, only because kabla sijasoma kuhusu u-Buddha niliambiwa ma buddhist ni wachawi and all sort of devious mystic things, nilipopata courage ya kwenda kwenye a Buddhist Temple nikakutana na a buddhist monk jamaa alikuwa ni mtu mmoja poa kichizi.
Nilipoingia kwenye library yao na kuanza kusoma vitabu vyao nikaona a lot of it is actually rather scientific and it is more of a philosophy of life than organized religion (of course you have the rituals which one cannot always attribute to the founder and the original tenets)
Kwa hiyo ninaposikia freemasons ndiye anti-christ na this and that, inaweza kuwa kweli.Lakini where is the evidence? These people are supposed to be ultra secretive, how do we know this?
Of course account ya Chande iko biased na wanaeleza the positive nature (altruism etc).Kitabu kingine kinachoelezea hivi in the same light ni David McCullough's "Truman"
I regard Christ highly as an important philosopher, and would hate to see him being used to bash on other people just based on rumors of being "Anti-Christ".I can say some Christians are "Anti-Masons".In Truman's and Chande's accounts I gathered Freemasons encourage brotherhood regardless of religion, of course this could very well be a front covering some devious shenanigans, but what can be said for sure beyond innuendo?
Mara nyingi kunakuwa na phobia kwa vitu tusivyovijua.Walipokuja wazungu Afrika kwanza watu walifikiri wanakula watu (partly right), wengine wakafikiri walikuwa miungu (the root of the word mzungu is the same as mulungu or mungu, time to change this name by the way!).So people fear what they don't understand, it is natural, what I want to have here, if there is something to fear, is to fear something that we actually understand and not fear based on the fact that we do not understand Freemasonry, or because we think it is different.In a discussion based on facts -and not hearsay- I would gladly welcome measured criticism of Freemasonry.Otherwise Christians will be discriminating against a minority religious organization.
Lets safeguard our freedom of worship lest next thing all people who think Christ is a mere philosopher be branded anti Christ and from there who knows, in the wake of the ensuing liturgy's litany of lines of litigations, or to be more precise inconsequential inquisitions
paralled on the Spanish one, perhaps all protestants would potentially be branded so.
I guess I better dust my volumes on the history of the crusades and the few books I have on Freemasonry.
Just when I thought the Kindle was taking over too.
