Q Aren’t you a religion or a rival to religion?
A
Emphatically not. Freemasonry requires a belief in God
and its principles are common to many of the world's
great religions. Freemasonry does not try to replace
religion or substitute for it. Every candidate is exhorted to
practise his religion and to regard its holy book as the
unerring standard of truth. Freemasonry does not
instruct its members in what their religious beliefs should
be, nor does it offer sacraments. Freemasonry deals in
relations between men; religion deals in a man's
relationship with his God.
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