Im thinking about joining the local lodge by my house for the purpose of collecting intel and infiltrating their organization. I know previous popes have said that its a mortal sin to be a mason, but what if my INTENT is to destroy the masons?

Once I would collect intel on them and move through the ranks, I would deliberately try to run the Masonic organization off a cliff by poor leadership, creating chaos within the group, promoting different cliques within the lodge so there is a lot of infighting, destroy the reputations of masonic members, secretly exposing them, etc etc.

Has anyone else thought about doing this or am I just crazy? In a perfect world I would work for a foreign catholic government that would have supported me and acutally benefited from my intel (i.e. Franco's Spain/Pinochet's Chile) but I dont know of such a government still in existence.

It's a sin to join the masons, as it is to join any occult oganization.

You'd get found out pretty quickly and would NOT advance far at all.

Besides, what makes you think you could possibly do this on your own? Do you honestly believe the Masons aren't smart enough to prevent such a thing from happening?

CC- that's funny- I've thought the same exact thing. But I came to the conclusion (apart from it being wrong, in and of itself, as Matt and Daegus have pointed out) that it would be a waste of time.

If you think about it, the ranks of Masonry where you'd have any true impact or change, would be the highest ranks. And unless you got millions and millions ($), and have the ability to do any real change anyways, you probably wouldn't get very far. I think that the lower ranking Mason positions are just a farce. I doubt many of the higher ups were truly low-ranking for very long. It was probably just a formality for them.

Yeah, it wouldn't work. Freemasons are clever people, they wouldn't fall for something like that. Besides, it's a sin to join a Freemasonic lodge.

Sheesh, everyones pretty harsh on curiouscatholic here. The man has a zealous heart for the Faith. He's thinking of daring ways to destroy evil and its malicious tentacles, yet we just crap all over his ideas.

Two ways to take it though...all the posters are just being real with him out of Catholic charity and "being real" with him as a brother in Christ, not as some spectator. Or two, you are all being corndogs (no cursing, no cursing) and sissies with no backbone for militant traditional Catholicism. I lean towards option 1 LOL, but I digress.

Curiouscatholic, in my opinion, the masons are quite diabolical and will have you had at some point because you'll have to slice the head off a Pope standup doll or engage in sodomy with one of the members at some point... so why even bother to start. My heart would sink if I had to do such things to "be part of the group". SO my recommendation is don't do it, and actually just pray Rosaries to ward their attacks on the Church into being futile or put St. Benedict medals all around their "houses".


Over and out.

Swearing false oaths is sinful.  Can't do it!  Sorry.

All the stuff you would have to do and out of all of them you are worried about THAT?!  

What can I say -- your heart is in the right place, but yes, you're crazy.

You can't fight the devil with the devil's weapons. They don't work against him.

Have you ever played a video game where a "Dark Sword" doesn't work, or doesn't do much, against the bad guy? Because he's of darkness, and the sword is of darkness?

Well, let's just say that's VERY realistic and applies to real life as well.

Final Fantasy IV where the Dark Knight Cecil has to become a Paladin(Holy Knight) to defeat the evil Golbez and save the world.