Good to know that someone’s keeping the ol’ Illuminati flame burning. Pope Bob would be proud.
The thing I find most curious about the Illuminati conspiracy theory is that if you look at the doctrines of the historical Bavarian Illuminati, they are pretty unremarkable to any educated person today. The Illuminati were basically secular humanists — they wanted secular government, morality and charity founded on “the brotherhood of man” rather than on religious obedience, education for women, and so on. They were secret because these ideas were illegal in the conservative Catholic dictatorship of 18th-century Bavaria — which suppressed the group promptly when their security failed.
If CFAR becomes at all successful, conspiracists will start referring to it as an Illuminati group. They will not be entirely wrong.
The thing I find most curious about the Illuminati conspiracy theory is that if you look at the doctrines of the historical Bavarian Illuminati, they are pretty unremarkable to any educated person today. The Illuminati were basically secular humanists — they wanted secular government, morality and charity founded on “the brotherhood of man” rather than on religious obedience, education for women, and so on.
Might I interest you in the theories of Mencius Moldbug?
Please give the poor sap a link to a summary of them; even “A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations” made me go tl;dr a third of the way through Part 1.
(What little I know about reactionary ideas comes from this, but I don’t know how accurate that is.)
They modeled themselves after the Freimauers and draw a lot of their membership from them.
Being a member of the Illuminati required a pledge of obedience. I would be very surprised if CFAR introduces that kind of behavior.
You don’t need pledges of obedience to advocate secular humanism.
Like the Freemansons the Illuminati also performed secret rituals.
They were secret because these ideas were illegal in the conservative Catholic dictatorship of 18th-century Bavaria
That not really true. Karl Theodor who banned them was a proponent of the Englighement. He didn’t want secret groups that pledge obedience to get political power.
He didn’t want his government to be overturned. A lot of French people died in the French revolution.
Good to know that someone’s keeping the ol’ Illuminati flame burning. Pope Bob would be proud.
The thing I find most curious about the Illuminati conspiracy theory is that if you look at the doctrines of the historical Bavarian Illuminati, they are pretty unremarkable to any educated person today. The Illuminati were basically secular humanists — they wanted secular government, morality and charity founded on “the brotherhood of man” rather than on religious obedience, education for women, and so on. They were secret because these ideas were illegal in the conservative Catholic dictatorship of 18th-century Bavaria — which suppressed the group promptly when their security failed.
If CFAR becomes at all successful, conspiracists will start referring to it as an Illuminati group. They will not be entirely wrong.
Might I interest you in the theories of Mencius Moldbug?
Please give the poor sap a link to a summary of them; even “A gentle introduction to Unqualified Reservations” made me go tl;dr a third of the way through Part 1.
(What little I know about reactionary ideas comes from this, but I don’t know how accurate that is.)
They modeled themselves after the Freimauers and draw a lot of their membership from them. Being a member of the Illuminati required a pledge of obedience. I would be very surprised if CFAR introduces that kind of behavior. You don’t need pledges of obedience to advocate secular humanism.
Like the Freemansons the Illuminati also performed secret rituals.
That not really true. Karl Theodor who banned them was a proponent of the Englighement. He didn’t want secret groups that pledge obedience to get political power. He didn’t want his government to be overturned. A lot of French people died in the French revolution.