You are absolutely correct in stating that I have every right to bear the name Ex-Mason for Jesus
I never said you did, so you are INCORRECT in making that assumption. I simply said you would probably try to defend the use of another organization's name, an organization which kicked you out on your rear. Seems you can't maintain a membership with anyone very well. When you aren't reneging on your promises to one, you're getting canned by another.
The fact is, as an EX-MEMBER of the organization bearing that name, you yourself know that by continuing to use their name, you falsely imply that you are still a member of that group. Your defense of your use of it is probably the reason I was contacted by Mr. Washum and that information passed along to me in the first place. Apparently he wishes it to be known beyond all doubt that you have no connections with EMFJ. The fact that he would pass the information along to someone who is not exactly a friend of either his organization or yours, is quite telling.
I was told this months ago, but said nothing. But since you choose to engage in attempted character assassination by applying a very similar principle, it seems an appropriate time and situation to bring it up.
And I WAS "absolutely correct" in predicting this bogus defense.
However, my post was about the position of ones denomination against Freemasonry.
Then, your post was in error. One's Diocese is not one's denomination.
Ex-Mason's for Jesus (EMFJ) is NOT a Christian denomination.
How true. From my own experiences with them, I'd say your statement is doubly true: they appear to be neither Christian nor a denomination.
But even if EMFJ were a Christian denomination, I have complied with its position against Freemasonry.
If that were true, they wouldn't have booted you out. And it's glaringly obvious that "I have complied with its position against Freemasonry" is not the equivalent of a denial, so I have to assume that I was told the truth by Mr. Washum, and that you are simply engaging in your usual evasiveness, walking all around the truth without ever admitting it, and without ever actually making a denial either.
So both your post, and your comment about "the pot calling the kettle black" is both irrelevant and absurd.
You seem to think I was trying to make a point-for-point comparison between the situation you criticized, and the statement I made in reply. No such direct comparison was intended--but I have a feeling you knew that already and are simply grinding fodder.
My point was simply, you are pointing at things you consider inconsistent on his part, so I was pointing out that you have inconsistencies of your own. You've had quite a few of them in the past, too, which have been enumerated plenty of times both here and elsewhere.
I'm not sure which of these brought about your dismissal from the organization to which you formerly belonged; perhaps it was simply the accumulation of them that finally got you booted.
The fact is, you have abandoned discussion and resorted to
ad hominem once again. It's been a long-standing pattern on this and other forums for quite some time. My post in return to you was simply to remind you that you live in a glass house and can't throw stones very far, or very hard, without bringing your house down around your head.
It is disingenous indeed for you to squawk about anyone's membership in organizations which, in your opinion, they should not belong. Since you have never denied sending an email to Ed King at masonicinfo claiming to retain membership in the lodge, boldly claiming that "once a Mason, always a Mason," and since I have received personal assurance from Mr. King himself that the information on his site is true, I'd say you have been very MUCH guilty of "the pot calling the kettle black," just as I stated. In principle, it's the same, because it goes without saying that someone claiming "
EX-Mason" status should not be retaining membership in the lodge or making statements like "once a Mason, always a Mason." That is duplicity. There is a biblical word for it, too.
The only thing misleading is you placing the title "Rev" before your name, as if you really are a defender of the Christian faith, while actually being a defender of the heresy of the Masonic faith.
God called me to the preaching ministry, and God led me to join the lodge, after first guiding me in a process of discovering all the lies created against it, and the misunderstanding portrayed by its critics. If you have a problem with it, you should take it up with Him.