On Apr 29, 11:33 am, Dave  wrote:
>
> > Question Number ONE for today's Homework
>
> > Why is God not mentioned
>
> Masons worship a god which they call the Great Architect of the
> Universe.

Sorry, but as a Masonic organization we do no worshiping.  We each
have our own selected system of belief, whether it be Christianity in
some form, Judiasm, Hinduism or some other system, and we do our
worshiping as prescribed by our system of belief.

As men of faith we all understand that an important undertaking should
not be started without seeking the aid of Deity, and so we make a
generic prayer to the Supreme Creator using a symbolic title of
Supreme Architect or Great Architect.  Masons understand this is only
a symbol and would privately replace it with the name they normally
use.  So, a Christian would make his prayer to Jesus Christ, a Jew
would make his to God (guessing, I'm not Jewish), and so on.

Most Masons would accept the symbolism of the Eye of Providence as
representing the Supreme Creator, but it is again only a symbol used.
Whatever symbolism or name defined by each Mason's system of belief
would be considered by them the true symbol or name.

> The symbol they have chosen to represent their god is the
> All Seeing Eye, which the Egyptians used to represent their pagan god,
> Osiris. In short they are pagans.

One would expect that the symbol of an organization's god would be
present in every single one of their gathering places, right?  One
would find the cross adorning every Christian Church, the Star of
David visible in every Jewish Synagogue, but the Eye of Providence
cannot be found in every single Masonic Lodge.  The logical
explanation is that it really isn't a symbol of some masonic god.

For me, the symbol reminds me of the omnipresence of Deity, but it is
the Deity described by my system of belief.  Masonry does not describe
Deity because it is not a religion; it's a fraternity.