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06-24-2013, 12:14 PM
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Hi I'm a newbie-Pledging Against Religion
Hello There All!
I would love to interact with each and everyone of you, and have a question?
Do you feel your religion prohibits you from pledging and/or are you a sinner because you have pledged? If so, why?
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06-24-2013, 12:22 PM
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06-24-2013, 12:37 PM
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06-24-2013, 12:56 PM
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No. I am a sinner because I am human.
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06-24-2013, 01:05 PM
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06-24-2013, 04:18 PM
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06-24-2013, 08:13 PM
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Heathen that I am, I'm wondering why/how your religion is against you pledging a sorority. What exactly about sorority membership makes you think it's sinful?
And unless you are planning on pledging some sorority I don't know of whose official or unofficial religion is satanism, you're good to go. Any form of Christianity or Judaism is going to be easy peasy to find a match for you if you want to stay within your faith. And if you meant you wanted to pledge a sorority whose core principles are different than yours, I think you need to do some more reading. In the NPC, there are a few Jewish sororities, a few nondenominational ones, and all the rest have varying degrees of Christian structures. And if you open up your search to sororities with a much more direct religious focus, there are lots of those out there too, like ones that require you to be a particular flavor of Christian and attend church every week.
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06-24-2013, 09:35 PM
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Heathen that I am, I'm wondering why/how your religion is against you pledging a sorority. What exactly about sorority membership makes you think it's sinful?
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There are churches/religious groups that do not approve of taking oaths or vows. There are churches/religious groups that do not approve of the secrecy involved in the oaths or vows of most GLO. There are churches/religious groups that do not approve of the philosophies that (as they understand them) underlie Freemasonry, and that as a result have problems with GLOs to the extent that there is any a sonic influence in them. And there are churches/religious groups that have a problem with the Greek mythology that pays a ritualistic role in many GLOs, seeing it as idolatry or syncretism rather than metaphor or symbolism.
Yes, there are Christian (or Jewish) influences in many GLOs, and there are specifically-Christian GLOs. There are still some religious groups that might have problems with fraternity or sorority membership.
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06-24-2013, 10:00 PM
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There are churches/religious groups that do not approve of the philosophies that (as they understand them) underlie Freemasonry, and that as a result have problems with GLOs to the extent that there is any a sonic influence in them. And there are churches/religious groups that have a problem with the Greek mythology that pays a ritualistic role in many GLOs, seeing it as idolatry or syncretism rather than metaphor or symbolism.
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In particular I have heard that the Mormon Church has prohibitions against Secret Societies that require oaths.
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06-24-2013, 10:09 PM
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In particular I have heard that the Mormon Church has prohibitions against Secret Societies that require oaths.
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There are some smaller Lutheran groups that do as well. That's why there were some Lutheran fraternities and sororities.
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06-25-2013, 09:34 AM
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In particular I have heard that the Mormon Church has prohibitions against Secret Societies that require oaths.
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My wife is a Latter Day Saint and is a member of Alpha Phi Omega which is a co-ed community service fraternity.
I know people who are both Latter Day Saints and Masons and (from the wikipedia article Mormonism and Freemasonry)
From 1925 to 1984 the Grand Lodge of Utah prohibited Latter-day Saints from joining, but no other Grand Lodge followed this ban and Mormons were free to join Lodges outside Utah. In 1984 the Grand Lodge of Utah officially dropped its anti-Mormon position and allowed LDS church members to join. Today there is no formal obstacle in Utah or in any other Grand Lodge preventing Mormons from becoming Freemasons.
The presidency of the LDS Church has not made an official statement as to whether or not Freemasonry is compatible with Mormonism. However Don LeFevre, a past spokesman for the church has said the church "...strongly advises its members not to affiliate with organizations that are secret, oath-bound, or would cause them to lose interest in church activities."[8] There are many LDS Masons in Utah and other Grand Lodges who serve and have served in various leadership positions, including Grand Masters, other Grand Officers, and Worshipful Masters.
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