Sorry if this comes across as an odd question. I was talking recently to a former Mason who’d become a Christian and left his Masonic order. He now runs a website devoted to exposing Masonry as an organization that embraces occult rituals and beliefs.
He’s revealed all of the “secrets” he was let into, most of which he’d been exposed to only after spending years in the organization and climbing the ranks. The secrets seemed relatively innocuous to me (mainly the particulars of rituals), and while I agreed with him that some of the rituals practiced by the Masons probably cross the line into Biblically prohibited flirtations with the occult, I suggested that it wasn’t proper for him, who’d sworn oaths not to reveal these details, to publish them for public consumption.
Naturally he disagreed. He said that when he’d made the oaths he’d been a servant of Satan and that the oaths were therefore no longer binding.
I’m of the view that unless questions of justice are involved (e.g., we probably have an obligation to break a secrecy oath, some exceptions allowed, to prevent an innocent man from being sentenced to death), we’re stuck with keeping our word.
Any thoughts?
He’s revealed all of the “secrets” he was let into, most of which he’d been exposed to only after spending years in the organization and climbing the ranks. The secrets seemed relatively innocuous to me (mainly the particulars of rituals), and while I agreed with him that some of the rituals practiced by the Masons probably cross the line into Biblically prohibited flirtations with the occult, I suggested that it wasn’t proper for him, who’d sworn oaths not to reveal these details, to publish them for public consumption.
Naturally he disagreed. He said that when he’d made the oaths he’d been a servant of Satan and that the oaths were therefore no longer binding.
I’m of the view that unless questions of justice are involved (e.g., we probably have an obligation to break a secrecy oath, some exceptions allowed, to prevent an innocent man from being sentenced to death), we’re stuck with keeping our word.
Any thoughts?