Yes, it does. Openly stated, although it's kind of funny you take it as a gotcha.
The point was, most of this thing, and the overwhelming preponderance of the people who've ever had the tag attached to their name in some way, are no more nefarious than volunteers for Kiwanis, or Lion's Club, or somesuch. Sometimes people get their panties in a bunch over the Masons, when in reality, 99.9% of it is old men raising small amounts of money to buy winter boots for kids. Maybe there are Masons in blood-sketched basements making sacrifices to Moloch, but if a thing is what it does most often (which it is), this would be a stupid way to think about the thing that is Masons.
Yes, it does. Openly stated, although it's kind of funny you take it as a gotcha.
The point was, most of this thing, and the overwhelming preponderance of the people who've ever had the tag attached to their name in some way, are no more nefarious than volunteers for Kiwanis, or Lion's Club, or somesuch. Sometimes people get their panties in a bunch over the Masons, when in reality, 99.9% of it is old men raising small amounts of money to buy winter boots for kids. Maybe there are Masons in blood-sketched basements making sacrifices to Moloch, but if a thing is what it does most often (which it is), this would be a stupid way to think about the thing that is Masons.
You should read slower, or better.