My mother is a Jehovah's Witness, which is a cult tied to the Masons. I have a friend who is a low-level Mason. There are people of good character I know who are Catholics. While I have a problem with secret societies and oaths that split loyalty, for me to disassociate myself with everyone who might be "tainted" in some way is self-sabotage.
The principle of staying clean and pure has to be squared with the consequences in our dirty yet real social environment. The reality of the terrain is that it has Satanic elements to navigate around. Staring at the heavens and wishing you were not bound to the land doesn't solve that.
We have ubiquitously infiltrated institutions, so guilt by association is going to get us nowhere. I have plenty of my own struggles with sin and mortal desire to confront before I go around passing judgment on others. Inevitable events will take care of the institutional corruption.
God hates the sin but loves the sinner
We are to be 'in' the world but not 'of' the world.
Specifically to spread Christ's gospel msg "into all the world" to all mankind - of His personal love, forgiveness, salvation and hope of eternal life
"But ye a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should show forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light" 2Pet2:9
We aren't saved by traditions and practices
Nor by our own works
Nor by whatever church we belong to or attend
Nor by our family history or bloodline
etc
But by a daily close personal relational walk with Him who created us .. who loves and cleanses us, makes us fit, as did the father of the prodigal son, to live in his 'house'.
Through and only by Him we are given power over sin in our lives.
For Jesus is "the way, the truth, and the life and no man comes unto the Father" but by Him
