freemasonry.network, January 3, 2024
Over the past few years, there has been an alarming increase in the number of attacks on Masonic buildings and Freemasons themselves, with more cases surfacing every month. Police have been investigating a report of criminal damage to a Masonic Hall in downtown Belfast this week. The Masonic Hall, adjacent to the Victoria Square shopping center, is home to dozens of Masonic lodges in Belfast. On the Irish Masonic Network’s social media page, one member shared photos of the vandalized building and stated: “It is with great sadness that I must report the sustained attack on Freemasons Hall Arthur Square… The glass and inscriptions that have existed for over 150 years have been destroyed.” Earlier this month, the Vatican banned Catholics from joining Freemasonry. A few months earlier, a Freemason in McAllen, Texas, was fatally shot in front of a local lodge by a man who believed the Masons had “placed a curse on him.” There have been arsons and other serious acts of vandalism that have damaged or destroyed Masonic buildings in New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Connecticut, Vancouver, British Columbia, and other places. A Vancouver arsonist set fire to three Masonic buildings in that city in one morning, causing $2.5 million in damage, and was sentenced to 40 months in prison. It’s worth noting that his attorney claimed he “struggled with mental health issues and simply wanted to draw attention to what he described as dark spirits and CSIS tracking devices.” Outside the United States, Masonic Halls in Ireland and Greece have also recently come under attack by anti-Masonic activists. It is also worth noting that there has been a significant increase in anti-Masonic posts and videos on social media. The Grand Master of the State of Washington has issued a letter warning members of his jurisdiction against a man who has made numerous hateful threats against the Fraternity.
The editors of freemasonry.network, which has been operating continuously for 5 years and publishes daily posts on Masonic charity, have decided to come forward and finally take a firm stand against this wave of violence against Freemasons. These are the actions we will undertake:
- Freemasons in North America alone donate about $2 million every day to national and local charities, more than 70% of which is directed to the general public; Masons are also actively involved in community volunteering. We’ll be writing more about this – we’ll be publishing more posts about what the Freemasons really do: their daily acts of charity. In fact, this will be the same thing we’ve been doing every day for the past 5 years, but we want to do more of it, also showing how, by working on self-development, members of Freemasonry become better citizens and contribute to the betterment of society. Finally, we want to use the power of social media and implement paid promotion of our posts, by which our message will go beyond the circle of Freemasons themselves. Of course, we will only publish material based on official communications from Grand Lodges and their uplifted representatives!
- We are open to cooperation with Brethren all over the world – if you have ideas on how to improve our image and how to protect ourselves, let us know. Our pages are also open for your articles! The texts we will publish as part of this campaign will be about our security, among other things. To begin with, we have prepared a report, developed by a specialist, on the terrorist dangers to which Freemasons are currently exposed, which we will publish tomorrow. Please support our campaign: the more resources we have, the more widely we can run it on social media (paid promotion of posts, paid advertising).
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