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Originally Posted by CutiePie2000
Translation: we don't want you joining other organizations that might siphon off your money that might have come to the church instead. Therefore, we forbid you from joining these organizations so that you can divert your money to us.
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No, not really. If that were so they'd prohibit many other activities such as donating money to the poor not through the church, making donations to schools, hospitals, etc. or joining organizations like GLOs.
There's theological reasoning behind it, please see the above link for more info, but don't just make a comment criticising either Lutheran or Catholic teachings out of ignorance. In general they object because they view the Masonic rituals as bad theology.