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Originally Posted by MysticCat
^^^ You are right that Freemasonry is a fraternity ("brotherhood") in the broad sense
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lol... "in the broad sense."
Masonry as a fraternity
preceded college fraternities as we know them today. Many founders of IFC fraternities were Masons and used Masonic principles and ceremonies in founding their own orgs.
Sure, there's a semantic distinction between "college fraternity" and "any fraternity," and it might be slightly misleading to people who don't know about or understand Masonry, but Masonry was a fraternity LONG before your org was ever founded; know where you came from.
