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[dromia]

What Christel says (almost), you don't have to believe in a deity of any sort. The whole point, as was discussed earlier, religion is banned.

So atheists are eligible to join then, even when they don't believe in a supreme being?

[Alpha1]

Lets start a new religion then we can all join lets worship guns we could call it shooeterism.
We might be able to get charity status or even a lottery grant to build a church with lots of 25yd pews. :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Robin128]

Shall we call it the Christel Lodge?

You prepared to bare your breast Alpha1???

:roll: :lol: :lol:

[dromia]

There is no way I'd join anything that would let someone like me in.


With due defference to Mr Marx.

[TobyH]

So atheists are eligible to join then, even when they don't believe in a supreme being?

Yes. It's not relevant what you believe in.

[Christel]

Surely that goes against being an atheist....that there is nothing to believe in.

I know it is not important what you believe in but you have to believe in something. So atheists are out, surely?

[dromia]

So atheists are eligible to join then, even when they don't believe in a supreme being?

Yes. It's not relevant what you believe in.

There seems to be confusion about this then in the masonic community, I asked a friend last night who is a mason and he was adamant that atheists could not be members having no belief.

[TobyH]

Will have to speak to my father.

Is it enough to believe in the right way to live, common sense, helping others, doing good deeds without reward? Do you have to believe in (what is in my opinion) un-substatiated gods rather than the good of human nature?

[TobyH]

Or put it another way, is believing in nothing any different from believing in something that might not exist?

[Robin128]

"A 'Book of the Law' (Volume of Sacred Law or VSL) shall constitute an indispensable part of the furniture of every Lodge. Advisedly, any Book of the Law because it is not absolutely required that the Bible be used. The 'Book of the Law' is that volume which, by the religion of the Mason, is believed to contain the revealed will of the Grand Architect of the Universe."

http://www.formermasons.org/issues/volu ... ed_law.php