P
Peter_Dawson
Guest
I swear that the following is true.
For years I drove my family past a Scottish Rite Cathedral for the Masons.
Towering above the Cathedral was a huge windowless brick tower. I thought, “What is that for?”
Then, I was invited to a social affair being held at the Cathedral. When I arrived, they had a Mason greeter there. I asked some questions about the Cathedral’s ornate symbolic architecture. He thought that I was interested in being a Mason, assumed that I was non-Catholic, and began showing me around.
When we got to the business of the windowless brick tower, he said, “Oh, that’s where we store our scenic backdrops for our skirts.”
“Your skits?”
“Yes. All of our new Masons have to participate in skits dramatizing what we teach them about the hisdtory of our group – how we started as the Templars, but then the Catholic pope took all of our assets and our homes and left us homeless. And how we have recovered from those terrible days.”
He then took me to the closet where they stored Templar outfits, swords and shields for their skits.
So, they have grown men up on stage putting on skits with costumes and tin swords and shields intent on showing how disgusting the Catholic Church was (and, to the extent that it is the same Church and they still hate it, how disgusting it is).
For years I drove my family past a Scottish Rite Cathedral for the Masons.
Towering above the Cathedral was a huge windowless brick tower. I thought, “What is that for?”
Then, I was invited to a social affair being held at the Cathedral. When I arrived, they had a Mason greeter there. I asked some questions about the Cathedral’s ornate symbolic architecture. He thought that I was interested in being a Mason, assumed that I was non-Catholic, and began showing me around.
When we got to the business of the windowless brick tower, he said, “Oh, that’s where we store our scenic backdrops for our skirts.”
“Your skits?”
“Yes. All of our new Masons have to participate in skits dramatizing what we teach them about the hisdtory of our group – how we started as the Templars, but then the Catholic pope took all of our assets and our homes and left us homeless. And how we have recovered from those terrible days.”
He then took me to the closet where they stored Templar outfits, swords and shields for their skits.
So, they have grown men up on stage putting on skits with costumes and tin swords and shields intent on showing how disgusting the Catholic Church was (and, to the extent that it is the same Church and they still hate it, how disgusting it is).
