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Masonic Lodge
Parma Lodge No. 183
100 W Main St
Parma , MI 49269


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County: Jackson
Bus. mtg: 2nd Tue of the mo.
Time: 7:30 pm
Charter date: 01/11/1866
Districts - DDI/BGP: 45 /45

Master of the Lodge:
Russell Chapel

Secretary:
George Hubert
ph: (517)531-3165
email: geohubert@cablespeed.com

Is Freemasonry a religion or has it a religion?
 No, to both questions. "A" religion connotes some particular religion. Freemasonry is nonsectarian. Before its Altar Christian, Jew, Mohammedan, Buddist, Gentile, Confucian, may kneel together. If the question be phrased "Is Freemasonry religious" then the obvious answer is that an institution "erected to God" which begins its ceremonies and ends its meeting with prayer; which has a Holy Book upon its Altar; which preaches the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, of course, has a religious character, although, let it be emphasized again, wholly nonsectarian.
All Grand Lodges require their initiates to express a belief and trust in God. No atheist can be made a Mason.
 
 

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