Buddy my grand father was a Freemason, yet I am not. Theat is the truth of Freemasonry, we modern Americans do not have time for empty ritual. The Freemasons are a dying institution that only held real power at the founding of the United States. They are dinosuars as evidenced by them opening their secret rituals on American TV. Do more research, the Illuminati are a better scape goat to pull attention from muslim extreamism.