Jeff Runciman

Why is it when someone through history has created or caused some kind of ill will against another person or persons and someone (usually with too much time on their hands) else researches the fact that they have, or might have, joined a Masonic lodge in their lifetime, need to go on a rant about how masons are all conspirators and that we all are secretly plotting ways for mass destruction of mankind. Just because a person joined a lodge 20 years ago, and aren't an active member and they have some sort of wrong doing, doesn't mean the lodge co horsed them into doing these things. Freemasonry takes good men and makes them better. But that only applies if they want to, and are active members of their lodge.
If I joined the boy scouts when I was young, then 20 years ago murdered someone, does that mean the Boy Scouts taught me to kill and cause all boy scouts to be painted with the same brush, and say they are all bad ?
I'm sick of hearing the people like Paul Bernardo and such are freemasons and that we are all terrible cause we would let someone like him into our fraternity and we must all be like him.....
That’s just my rant of the day. Any comments I'd like to hear them.

Fraternally Yours
Bro. Jeff Runciman
J.D. of
Percy Lodge # 161
Warkworth, Ontario
Canada

Jayman

my maternal grandfather was a bad man. a very bad man. hateful, spiteful, mean, and broke probably every rule there is to how a Mason should act outside of the lodge. he was a WM PM and DDGM in his time. He was also spiteful of my father who was SR. Said that he wasn't a real Mason because he "bought his degrees"


But for every clown like that, I look to my father and paternal grandfather who were just and upright men, with a strong sense of morality, spirituality, humanity, compassion and work ethic. Men who embodied the words that appear in Masonic ritual.