Freemasonry has been declaring these principles for centuries as freedom...

Freemasonry has been declaring these principles for centuries as freedom, equality, brotherhood, the love of working and peace, democracy, etc. These release a person totally from the religious creeds but still give a principle of life. They search their bases not in metaphysical concepts but inside a mature person living on this earth.50 Masons who think in this way are totally opposed to a person believing in God and performing acts of charity to gain His approval.

For them, everything must be done only for the sake of humanity. We can clearly discern this way of thinking in a book published by the Turkish lodges: Masonic morality is based on love for humanity.

It totally rejects being good through hope for the future, a benefit, a reward, and paradise, out of fear of another person, a religious or political institution, unknown supernatural powers… It only espouses and exalts being good in relation to the love for family, country, human beings and humanity. This is one of the most significant aims of Freemasonic evolution.

To love people and to be good without expecting something in return and to reach this level are the great evolution.51 The claims in the above quotation are highly misleading. Without the moral discipline of religion there can be no sense of self-sacrifice for the rest of society. And, where this would appear to be accomplished, relationships are merely superficial.

Those who have no sense of religious morality have no fear of God or respect for Him, and in those places where there is no fear of God, human beings are concerned only for their own gain. When people think that their personal interests are at stake, they cannot express true love, loyalty or affection. They show love and respect only to those who may be of benefit to them.

This is because, according to this misconception of theirs, they are in this world only once and, therefore, will take as much from it as they can. Moreover, according to this false belief, there is no retribution for any dishonesty or evil they commit in the world. Masonic literature is full of moral sermons which try to obfuscate this fact. But, actually, this morality without religion is nothing but sham rhetoric.

History is full of examples to show that, without the self-discipline that religion confers upon the human spirit, and without divine law, true morality cannot in any way be established. A striking example of this was the great French Revolution of 1789.