Today's subtlety award goes to…
If they're still at the local lodge, they're doing good in the community -per the stated mission. It's just a recruiting ground, and the creeps move onward and upward.
Don't hate your neighbors and covet their possessions.
They'll tear it down themselves once they see where we're at.
A guy I've known for 45 years was always looking for something to belong to, and that eventually lead to the lodge. He went through all the bullshit, and was eventually invited to DC "to meet some people."
The people he went to meet must have been a better judge of character than the guy who took him there -figured out quick he was a nice enough guy, and at the end of the day just another full of shit truck driver, and took a pass on hanging out further.
I figured they sized him up and sent him home. He hasn't been active in the lodge since, but that shit seems to have fucked him up even more than that time he annuled his first marriage so he could become a catholic.
Seems to have rewired the spiritual higher power right out of his brain. It's not going well for him in these later stages of life.