Originally Posted by Mutt

I didn't read all of Captain Morgan's exposé Captain Morgan's Exposition of Freemasonry Contents published in 1827 but read enough - more rituals and rites than the Catholic Church. It sounds like a religion/cult. Anyway they kicked this Morgan fellow out over his less than positive attitude and lax attendance, so he wrote a book revealing pretty much everything heavy criticizing them mostly for being a bunch of self important ninnies and an embarrassment to what was then the beginning of the modern world - we are talking about the Age of Reason/Enlightment. So they kidnapped him, rowed him out to the middle of Lake Ontario with a rock tied to him, never seen again LOL

Freemasonry was huge in early America, most of the Founding Fathers were Masons as well as many of Presidents. Masons had a 'get out of jail free' card, if you were charged with a crime and proved you were a Mason with whatever secret signal you could literally get away with murder.

So are the lodges still built to the same specifications they were in the 18th and 19th centuries and do they still hold these ceremonies, do the rituals and ceremonies and wear the same garb?