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.
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.