Orthodoxe christenen zeggen. Vrijmetselaren doen niet aan dogma's, maar is dat ook niet een dogma? Wat vind jij?

Whether Freemasonry possesses dogmas depends on how the fraternity's fundamental tenets are defined by different authorities and jurisdictions. In response to papal encyclicals, the Grand Lodge of England asserted that Freemasonry maintains no political or religious opinions 1. However, Arthur Edward Waite argues that despite such assertions, the Craft does retain immutable dogmas, specifically the belief in God and the immortality of the soul, noting that denying these excludes a candidate from being made a Mason 1.

Conversely, Albert C. Mackey maintains that Freemasonry has no theology of its own and espouses no set of religious doctrines or creeds 2. Mackey resolves the apparent contradiction between disclaiming a formal theology and requiring a belief in God by explaining that the Craft views religion as belonging universally to all men rather than to any single church or creed 2. Historically, Freemasons also rejected medieval religious dogmas regarding labor, instead elevating work as a divine attribute reflected in their conception of God as the Sovereign Grand Architect 2.

In continental Masonry, the Grand Orient of France moved in 1877 to amend its constitution by suppressing every dogmatic affirmation entirely 1.

The supplied sources do not explicitly address whether the assertion that Freemasonry has no dogmas is itself a dogma, beyond documenting these jurisdictional debates over dogmatic affirmations and requirements of belief 1.