That's doesn't mean that I can't ask the question.

Actually, I've been wondering for awhile as to why this forum member would use the name of "RoughAshlar," since it's basically a freemasonic term. I've been thinking of asking him why, and this seemed like a good time to do so.

Maybe there's a reasonable explanation as to why he's using that name, though I can't really think of one.

Right.  I said that it was a VALID question.  I too am a bit curious about his choice of screen name.

 Although one rebuttal of Flat Earth Theory holds that Freemasons have been the ones promoting Flat Earth.

That is by far more plausible than Meg's postion.  Catholics reached a consensus on a spherical earth after the period of the Early Church Fathers. It was taught in Catholic universities and believed by all educated Catholics centuries before Freemasons came into being.

The falsehood that Catholics believed in a flat earth, in contrast, began being spread around the time that Freemasons became influential.  One of key writings responsible for this myth was written by a known Freemason.

Freemasonic globe earthers have no place in the Catholic church. Baal (globe worship/belief) is Satanism.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of historic people who wrote in support of a spherical earth, most of whom were Catholic.

Late Antiquity
Ampelius, Chalcidius, Macrobius, Martianus Capella, Basil of Caesarea, Ambrose of Milan, Aurelius Augustinus, Paulus Orosius, Jordanes, Cassiodorus, Boethius, Visigoth king Sisebut

Early Middle Ages
Isidore of Seville, Beda Venerabilis, Theodulf of Orléans, Vergilius of Salzburg, Irish monk Dicuil, Rabanus Maurus, King Alfred of England, Remigius of Auxerre, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Leo of Naples (in German), Gerbert d’Aurillac (Pope Sylvester II).

High Middle Ages
Notker the German of Sankt-Gallen, Hermann of Reichenau, Hildegard von Bingen, Petrus Abaelardus, Honorius Augustodunensis, Gautier de Metz, Adam of Bremen, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Berthold of Regensburg, Guillaume de Conches, Philippe de Thaon (in French), Abu-Idrisi, Bernardus Silvestris, Petrus Comestor, Thierry de Chartres, Gautier de Châtillon, Alexander Neckam, Alain de Lille, Averroes, Snorri Sturluson, Moshe ben Maimon, Lambert of Saint-Omer, Gervasius of Tilbury, Robert Grosseteste, Johannes de Sacrobosco, Thomas de Cantimpré, Peire de Corbian, Vincent de Beauvais, Robertus Anglicus, Juan Gil de Zámora (in Spanish), Ristoro d'Arezzo, Roger Bacon, Jean de Meung, Brunetto Latini, Alfonso X of Castile.

Late Middle Ages
Marco Polo, Dante Alighieri, Meister Eckhart, Enea Silvio Piccolomini (Pope Pius II), Perot de Garbalei (divisiones mundi), Cecco d'Ascoli, Fazio degli Uberti (in Italian), Levi ben Gershon, Konrad of Megenberg, Nicole Oresme, Petrus Aliacensis, Alfonso de la Torre (in German), Toscanelli, Brochard the German (in German), Jean de Mandeville, Christine de Pizan, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, Martin Behaim, Christopher Columbus.

Assuming that Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ began in the 18th century, all of these people lived before it.  Do you really want to say that none of them have a place in the Church and that they all practised Satanism?

Meg, 

It is a valid question and well spotted.  I have never tried to hide it, and have been honest with anyone who asked.  You were the first one to openly ask on the forum and not through private message.  Its amazing to me though people knew, no one said outed me sooner.

A rough ashlar is an imperfect stone, just as we are imperfect and tainted though original sin. It a philosophical concept that as you progress though life, you try to constantly work at it through the grace of God and try to rid yourself of your imperfections and vices.

Long story short, I was in tradition for decades and saw the rise and fall of the SSPX.  I became conflicted with numerous things and drifted away from the Church. My family, also in tradition has spread from the NO to SSPX to Boston, KY.  I left all together, but still come here to check on the status and happenings with in the resistance. 

There are many fake, false, and erroneous things on the internet.  Its much like the things said about Trump, it doesn't have to be true to be used against him.  I wish to clarify a few things from this thread:

1) Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ does not have a position on Flat Earth and Globe Earth no matter what you read on the internet.  No one person speaks for Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ and I'm sure there are people on both sides of the isle on this topic.  I personally believe that the earth is a globe.  There is no Flat Sun, Flat Moon, Flat Mars, Flat Comet, Flat Asteroid Society...everyone seems fine with those being globular, I don't see the harm in believing that the earth might be a globe too.  I enjoy the debate...I do not enjoy Truth is Eternals extremism posing as Catholicism.

2) Lodges to not specifically revere Fr. Copernicus or Galileo.  They respect and honor the study of Astronomy, Geometry, Arithmetic, Music, Logic, Rhetoric and Grammar.  If there is any mention of these two men it was because they further advanced scientific discovery.

3)  You give Freemason's way too much credit.   They are too busy with trying to coordinate the fish fry, pancake breakfast, and fundraisers to try to take over the world.  There might be organizations of the rich and powerful controlling the world, but its not the masons any more if it ever was.

4) The oldest surviving globe is by Martin Behaim .  This is many years before the start of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ.  "During his visit to his native home in Nuremberg, in collaboration with the painter Georg Glockendon, Martin Behaim constructed his familiar terrestrial globe between 1491 and 1493, one of two globes, which he called the Erdapfel (literally, the earth apple). It conforms to an idea of a globe envisioned in 1475 by Pope Sixtus IV, but has the added improvements of meridians and an equatorial line."

5) I'll ask again. 
Is there one traditional Catholic priest in the world that preaches flat earth is necessary for salvation? Is there any priest/religious/visionary/doctor/pope anybody alive or dead that said that have said that believing that the earth is a globe is Satanism?  I don't remember that blasphemy being an unforgivable sin in my Catechism.  In the dozen encyclicals over the last 200+ years that spoke against Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ, was there a single one that said that the globe was a masonic deception?

Take Care and God Bless,

 What makes you believe earth is round? What proof do you have?

Here is a video explaining what my husband was telling me about the horizon proves that the earth is a globe:

Not bad.  But I think that some of the math might be wrong.  I don't have time to analyze it right now.  Midnight sun could be explained by a certain degree of tilt.  And I'm still not sure how you can have 24 hours of daylight in Antarctica.  And what of the Coriolis effect?