Antimasonic conspiracy theories used to treat freemasonry as the vector of enlightenment, atheism and therefore, revolution. In modern conspiracy theories, freemasons are purveyors of the occult and esoteric knowledge. They have been recast as agents of counter-enlightenment.
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Yes, and the Federalist Illuminati panic in the 1790s was absolutely about pathologizing the French Revolution and its American acolytes. But I mean the threat masonry once posed to the Protestant order was once unbelief, but now it is alternative belief (new age, the occult, &c)
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I wonder if this is part of the Christian conspiratorial idea (Pat Robertson, et al) that new age religion will be the established church of the new world order.
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