Article: 105 of alt.freemasonry Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!dryfoo From: dryfoo@athena.mit.edu (Gary L. Dryfoos) Newsgroups: alt.freemasonry Subject: Re: Voltaire Date: 30 Jul 1994 19:55:04 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 29 Distribution: world Message-ID: <31eb6o$rhc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: thelonious.mit.edu In article , dalek@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Coran Fisher aka The Doctor) writes: |> ...If Voltaire was indeed against religious superstition how could he have been |> a Mason, since you have to believe in a GOD to be one? Put down the encyclopedia and go read some Voltaire. Letting him speak for himself is only fair. Next, Masonry has often been popular with those who do not think that "God" is synonymous with "religion." Perhaps you will find out more about this point of view from M. Voltaire's writings. (Now you have inspired me to make a trip to a bookstore later today myself.) |> Could the encyclopedia |> be wrong in it's interpretation of Voltaire's rally cry? Encyclopedias are no more infallible than any other person or human endeavor, are they? Sounds to me like you need a little more light on your subject. |> I'd appreciate someone straightening me out. Don't trust anyone else to do it for you. On a crowded and noisy topic like "God" and "Religion", we're all going to have our own opinions, and you don't really know any of us. Have fun, -- dr foo