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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

However, Masonry was not content just to practice strange cere-
monies; it also followed a strategy designed to alienate Europe from the
Divine religions, and lure it into paganism. In the following section we
will consider some high-points of European history, country by country,
and follow the traces of this Masonic war against religion. The first coun-
try we must examine is France.

THE STRUGGLE AGAINST RELIGION
IN FRANCE
In earlier works we have examined the important role played by Ma-
sonry in the French Revolution. A very large number of the philosophers
of the Enlightenment, especially those with the strongest anti-religious
views, were Masons. The Jacobins, who set the stage for the revolution,

and became its leaders, were lodge members. 122
The role played by Masons in the revolution was admitted by an
"agent-provocateur" by the name of Count Cagliostro. Cagliostro was ar-
rested by the Inquisition in 1789, and made some important admissions
while under interrogation. He began by stating that Masons throughout
Europe had been planning a chain of revolutions. He said that the main
goal of the Masons was to destroy the Papacy or to take it over. In his con-

fession, Cagliostro also admitted that Jewish bankers financially sup-
ported all these revolutionary activities, and that Jewish money also
played an important role in the French Revolution. 123
The French Revolution was basically a revolution against religion. In
the determined effort of the revolutionaries to get rid of the clergy, as well
as the aristocracy, many clergymen were killed, religious institutions de-
stroyed, and places of worship ruined. The Jacobins wanted even to de-
stroy Christianity completely, and replace it with a pagan belief they

called "religion of reason." But, within a short time, they lost control of the
revolution and France was thrown into total disorder.
Masonry's mission in that country did not stop with the revolution.

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