Re: FreeMasons and Civil Disobedience

Torence wrote:

But enough of my opinion, what is yours?

I think it's obedience to just government. That's why dictatorships ban
Freemasonry when they get power. Masons might go from fostering
obedience to a just government to fostering revolution to an unjust
government. It's happened in the past, individual Masons anyways.

How this maps to acts of civil disobedience as protest I haven't thought
through. I have friends who have gone out to certain sites and crossed
the fence to get themselves arrested on camera. It's an honorable thing
to do iMO. As far as I know when I took my degrees I agreed not to do
that.

But what's the line between just and unjust governement - That's
a judgment that is not always obvious.

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