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GLOBAL FREEMASONRY

Darwin's theory seemed plausible to some due to the primitive level of scien-
tific knowledge and meager evidence in the nineteenth century.

Isindag, entitled "Obstacles to the Development of Knowledge and Ma-
sonry," that appeared in the 1962 Annual Bulletin of the Turkish Great Lodge

of Free and Accepted Masons. At the beginning of this article, Isindag repeats
the classical Masonic claim that religion is a myth invented by human be-
ings, and that monotheism is contrary to reason and science. Later, he de-
scribes the true instigator of the war against religion carried out under the
guise of "science":

It will be noticed that in this struggle for the spread of knowledge, Ma-
sons are known to have participated at every level. The reason for this
is that Masonry, in every period, has been guided always by logic,
knowledge and maturity, that is, by wisdom. Since it was founded, it
had fought against superstition and myth. 110
However, in reality, "superstition and myth" is not, as the Masons
claim, religion; it is, rather, the basis of the materialist, naturalist and evo-
lutionist beliefs they espouse. The clearest proof of this fact is that it is

their outmoded ideas, their repetitions of the empty beliefs of the ancient
pagan civilizations of Egypt and Greece, that have been invalidated by the

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