what is a freemason?

Answer 1

Freemasons are a fraternity "men only" There is also a female version called the Eastern Star. They have three appendent bodies the York Rite, Scottish Rite, and Shriners. Masons raise money for charity providing millions of dollars a day to various charities and it costs about 8 million a day to run a Shriners hospital where a child is treated at no charge. A society of secrets rather than a secret society all our rituals are plastered all over the Internet. But our grips,keys, and tokens are kept as secret as possible in the information age.
We are not a religion.

PS When we take over the world I'm coming for you Mason haters first.
By the way thats a joke

Answer 2

A freemason is a member of the freemason social fraternity.

to some other responses:

* freemasonry never presents itself as a religion...nothing in freemasonry is a parody of anything, it is serious study of morality through ritual, symbol and allegory.

Answer 3

Freemasonry is the oldest and largest world wide fraternity dedicated to the Brotherhood of Man under the Fatherhood of a Supreme Being. Although of a religious nature, Freemasonry is not a religion. It urges its members, however, to be faithful and devoted to their own religious beliefs.

Answer 4

Freemasonry presents itself as a religion usually claiming that its lodge is consecrated and on sacred ground with prayers & hymns to their god. In the higher levels there is a parody of the communion ritual. Freemasonry has been specifically condemned as incompatible with Christianity by numerous churches: Anglican; Roman Catholic; German Bishops; English Methodists; Free Presbyterian (Scotland); Reformed Presbyterian (Ireland); Orthodox Presbyterian (America); Greek Orthodox and Dutch Reformed(Cape).

Answer 5

tater stated the best so far. our founding fathers were freemasons. and no where in their writings did they mean for this country to be soley christian.

Answer 6

Less than an expensive one.

Seriously, wikipedia has a great write-up on them.