Re: FreeMasons and Civil Disobedience

In message <83720fee-c72c-41fc-a0df-b45f9d5eb088@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
s.com>, Torence <torenceake@xxxxxxx> writes
Can a Mason, if his mind so moves him, engage in Civil Disobedience?
While Law & order supporters point the passage from our charges the
admonition to remain peaceable to the civil magistrates, those
sympathetic to revolutionary causes call upon another passage, that
the same instructions remind us to stand by our Brothers even in
difficult or hard times. While a protesting Brother may be pitied as
an unhappy man, we own him and his act and should show the entire
world that we still love him throughout his ordeal.
I ask this question of the group because in another forum, we have
been exploring the relationship of FreeMasonry and Government, our own
as well as the civil one. I find it often incongruous that the same
Brothers who profess a zero tolerance to crime, for example, also take
pride that their associations here also link them to some of our great
revolutionary heroes. They are even a bit shamed when those
associations prove to be linked to something from the wrong side of
history.
If you were in the society of these names and in their day, what
would you like to think your attitude to them and their acts would be?
Thank you for your thoughtful response.

Dear Pandora,

See "Paradox" in the dictionary :-)))

I don't think there is an answer to your question. Whilst we are
required to be "moral and upright" there are no absolutes in morality.

Also History is written by the winners.


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