K of C / Freemasonry

When i looked at the title i saw 'KFC Freemasonry!'

 

So all the FreeMasons eat at the Colonel's?

 

Well since you are joining RCIA...you could ask your priest.

 

They eat at KFC> That is what someone said that someone else said...so it has to be true, doesn't it?

 

me too!

 

A mentor of mine wrote a book/manual on healing and deliverance that has an extensive section on freemasonry. Part of that includes a good sized list of organizations that are connected to freemasonry at some level or another. A great deal of research went into this. Anyway, the Knights of Columbus is NOT on that list. I can't say if it is a good organization or not, but I do not think it is connected to freemasonry.

 

It was founded by former Masons, however, and its rituals, etc. were patterned after Masonic ones.

Not surprisingly, all of that falls under the usual criticisms from conspiracy theorists that we often hear levelled at Masonry, although in the case of the Knights of Columbus, those claims are actually more credible.

 

Thanks for thinking of me, but that whole post you referenced is a lie.

 

It is true that the main impetus for the founding of the KofC was for Catholics to obtain insurance--which was normally done through fraternal organizations in those days (1880s).

However, and as for the rest of your comments, what applies to the Masons also applies to the Knights of Columbus since the latter copied most of their style, rituals and etc. from Freemasonry...except that the Masons:

-- are not sectarian but instead admit to membership men from a wide range of Christian denominations,

--do far more in the way of charitable work than do the Knights,

--and are much less secretive and "spooky" (to cite a claim often made against Masons by conspiracy devotees) than the KofC.

 

I respect you for saying this; most critics, including people who aren't especially unsympathetic to Masonry, aren't so willing to say something like that.

Well, I tend to agree--in both cases. However, I think it fair to say also that these rituals are intended to dramatize certain values, and those are ones that most people would applaud if they knew what was going on.

What happens is that they read something that plays up references to death and funny costumes and insists that this must be Satanic or akin to some gang initiation, etc. That's the reason I mentioned that point.

 

How can you be Lutheran and a KoC since according to their membership page, "Failure to answer truthfully to any of these declarations, or failure to remain a practical Catholic in union with the Holy See, renders void your membership in the Knights of Columbus."? Or were you Catholic when you got the policy and changed churches and kept the policy? (I've heard good things about their life insurance)