Posted by GOLF [GOLF] on November 12, 1999 at 18:23:23 {CkRQXOxAaIxcw/M2TiI6XmY6g1Cg2g}:
In Reply to: *The Great "Conspiracy" posted by Bibleman on November 12, 1999 at 10:33:11:
Bibleman,
I received a letter from Ray Franz dated August 24,1999 and he says this, "There was no evidence whatsoever of any influence from freemasonry witnessed by any of us, nor has there been since, including the fifteen years I spent at the Brooklyn headquarters, nine of these spent on the Governing Body...Freemasonry simply became viewed as another source of false religion...Nothing that either Russell or Rutherford wrote or said in any way indicates that they favored the Masonic system, quite to the contrary. As stated, when disfellowshipping procedures developed, it would have been a disfellowshipping offense for a witness to be a member of a masonic lodge."
I hope I have shed some light on your discussions.
DK