He has a police badge bumper sticker and like 4 Scottish rites Freemason bumper stickers lol

  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 months ago

    I've been listening to the new QAA and it's about Leo Taxil, an atheist Frenchman with a grudge against the church who wrote anticlerical shit post pamphlets in the 19th century until he realized that "repenting" and writing antimason pamphlets instead would be more profitable.

    They mentioned that a lot of the things evangelical Christians still think about Satanic masonry are his inventions.

    • EmoThugInMyPhase [he/him]
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      3 months ago

      Freemasons aren’t uniquely evil because they’re satanists or a cabal or whatever. They’re mostly boaters local to your community. They’re uniquely evil because it’s a bunch of rich reactionaries who aren’t satisfied with having control, they have to dress up like special boys and do ceremonies before fucking people over. American masons are likely to be uninteresting, but fraternal societies are a good institution to connect with very evil people in other countries to further western agendas, as seen during the Cold War.

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        3 months ago

        Oh I'm aware, basically nobody is evil because they're an evil Satanist. Not even actual satanists, they're just libertarians or whatever.

    • grendahlgrendahlgen [he/him, any]
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      3 months ago

      IIRC Taxil shows up in Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery, the (fictional) protagonist of which is a similarly cynical shitposting pamphleteer. Great weird book.