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Masonic Lodge
Ira A. Beck Lodge No. 503
133 E Michigan Ave
Battle Creek , MI 49014-4011


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County: Calhoun
Bus. mtg: 1st thu of the mo.
Time: 7:30 pm
Charter date: 05/25/1921
Districts - DDI/BGP: 40 /40

Master of the Lodge:
William Whittington
email: worshipful_master@irabeck503.com

Secretary:
Gerald Gibbons
ph: (269)721-3151
email: templar2b1ask1@mei.net

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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