Presentation providing information on anti-religious like illuminati and freemasonry etc . and the various movements against all types of religions from 1700's till now.

1. Anti-Religious Societies and
Movements
Presented by:
M.Salman Sajid
Usama Abbasi
Sikander Zulfiqar
Ahmed Fasih
Siraj Mughal

2. Why This Topic?
Anti-Religion becoming a global problem.
People losing their trust in clerics.
Overview of anti-religion.

3. Anti-Religion
• Opposition to religion of any kind.
• Anti-religionists may also be atheists or
antitheists.
• Some criticisms of monotheistic religions have
been:
i. Religion is wrong as it is in conflict with science.
ii. Revelations conflict internally.
iii. Conflicting claims about the one true faith.
• Charles Darwin, Richard Dawkins, Karl Marx, Bill
Maher and politicians like Joseph Stalin, Enver
Hoxha.

4. Illuminati
Founder: Adam Weishaupt
Aim:
o To oppose superstition, obscurantism,
religious influence over public life, and
abuses of state power.
o To put an end to the machinations of the
purveyors of injustice, to control them
without dominating them.

5. Things controlled by them:
o Mainly controls the entertainment and the
scientific industries. Notable members in
the scientific industry include renowned
physicists Isaac Newton and Albert
Einstein. In the entertainment industry
Chris Angel and David Copperfield can be
counted in as members.

6. Symbols used to communicate:
o Eye of Providence:
The all-seeing eye of God.
Now associated with the all
seeing order of illuminati.
o 666-Okay hand sign:
Number 666 represents the Anti-Christ who
will control the Illuminati
as he creates the New World
Order.
Number of the beast.
The circle of this 6 puts a way
for the illuminati eye to look
over the world.

7.  Brief Background:
o Adam Weishaupt became professor of Canon Law
and practical philosophy at the University of
Ingolstadt in 1773.
o Only non-clerical professor at an institution run
by Jesuits.
o Power lied with the Jesuit hierarchy.
o They made constant attempts to frustrate and
discredit non-clerical staff, especially when course
material contained anything they regarded as
liberal or Protestant.
o Weishaupt became deeply anti-clerical.
o Finding Freemasonry expensive, and not open to
his ideas, he founded his own society which was
to have a system of ranks or grades based on
those in Freemasonry, but with his own agenda.

8. Freemasonry
• Freemasonry or Masonry consists of fraternal
organisations that trace their origins to the
local fraternities of stonemasons.
Founder: Elias Ashmole
Aim:
o A new world order in which religion has no
existence and all men are treated equally by
each other and an authoritative government
of the freemasons governed by masonic
principles.

9. Things controlled by them:
o They have their members at high
government position like heads of states
or legislators.
o Many conspiracy theorists also claim them
to be linked to the 9/11 bombings and the
Armenian genocide.

10.  Symbols used to communicate:
o Devil’s Horn:
 Satan also known as the
horned god.
 Signifies that Satan rules.
 “Hail, Satan.”
o The Hidden Hand:
 Most of the people using this
sign are proven (and often
enthusiastic) members of the
Freemasons.
 Inspired by Exodus 4:6. In this
biblical verse, the heart
(“bosom”) stands for what we are, the hand for what
we do. It can thus be interpreted as: ‘What we are is
what we ultimately do.’

11.  Brief Background:
o The first Grand Lodge, the Grand Lodge of
London and Westminster (later called the Grand
Lodge of England (GLE)), was founded on St
John's Day, 24 June 1717, when four existing
London Lodges met for a joint dinner.
o However, many Lodges could not endorse
changes which some Lodges of the GLE made to
the ritual (they came to be known as the
Moderns), and a few of these formed a rival Grand
Lodge on 17 July 1751, which they called the
"Antient Grand Lodge of England."
o These two Grand Lodges vied for supremacy until
the Moderns promised to return to the ancient
ritual. They united on 27 December 1813 to form
the United Grand Lodge of England (UGLE).

12. Freedom from Religion Foundation
(FFRF)
• The Freedom From Religion Foundation
(FFRF) is an American non-profit
organization based in Madison, Wisconsin,
with members from all 50 states, the District
of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
Founder: Anne Nicol Gaylor
Aim:
o To promote the constitutional principle of
separation of state and church, and to
educate the public on matters relating to non-
theism.

13. Things Controlled by them:
o Stronghold of this organization is mainly in
the media, and science and technology
sector.
o Notable members include Nobel prize
laureate physicist Steven Weinberg,
Author and actor Jesse Ventura, and
American biologist Richard Dawkins.
Signs used by them to communicate:
o No information regarding this up till now as
it is a relatively new society.

14. Brief Background:
o Co-founded by Anne Nicol Gaylor and her
daughter, Annie Laurie Gaylor, in 1976.
o Organization is supported by over 23,500
members and operates from an 1855-era
building in Madison, Wisconsin.
o In March 2011, FFRF, along with the Richard
Dawkins Foundation for Reason and
Science, began The Clergy Project.
o In 2015, FFRF announced Non-belief Relief,
a new charitable arm. Non-belief Relief is a
humanitarian agency for atheists, agnostics,
freethinkers and their supporters to improve
the world.

15. Holocaust
The Holocaust was murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and
its collaborators.
Roma (Gypsies) , people with disabilities, and some of the Slavic
peoples (Poles, Russians, and others) are also targeted.
Adolf Hitler became Prime minister of Germany in 1935.After Hitler
started cruelty on Jews.
Jews were deprived of their citizenship and other basic rights.
30,000 Jews are arrested reason for this is that Jews must carry id
cards and Jewish passports were marked with a “J.”
1939 was era of world war 2.

16. Jews were forced into ghettos(camp).
In 1943 80 to 85 percent Jews were murdered.
In 1944 Hitler deported 12,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz where they are
murdered.
Hitler was defeated in world war 2 in 1945 and holocaust was over.
In 1947,UN established Jew homeland in controversial area so called
Palestine , which became state of Israel in 1948.
(Against Christians)
French Revolution
Movement started in 1789 and end on 1814.
Leading people:
1.King Louis XVI. 2.Emmanuel Sieyès
3.Jean-Paul Marat.
4.Maximilien Robespierre. 5.Napoleon Bonaparte

17. There were three states in France :
1.Clergy 2.Nobility 3 .Rest of
France.
 In 1789,there was financial crises on France.
 Some steps were taken to overcome crises such as by imposing
new taxes , making a new constitution.
 Consequently the reforms made by assembly were against catholic
church created hatred in people.
 Law of 17 Sep:
1. All priests and all persons protecting them are liable to death on the
spot.
2. The destruction of all crosses, bells and other external signs of
worship.
3. The destruction of statues, plaques, and iconography from places of
worship.
At end finally last constitution was made in 1799 and revolution was

18. USSR Anti-Religious Campaign
Introduction:
• Era
• 15th party congress by Stalin.
Russian Orthodox Church:
• Closing of theological schools.
• Prohibition of church publications.
• Murder of orthodox priests.
• Decrease in churches from 29584 to less
than 500.

19. • High taxes imposed on churches.
Metropolitan Sergius:
• Bishops arrested.
• Existence of underground churches.
• Secret religious activities.
• Priests wandering from village to village.
Operation Barbarossa:
• Invasion of Soviet union.
• Strengthened the people’s faith in God.
• End of campaign.

20. Foreign Criticism:
• Huge protests in western countries.
• Mass public prayers in UK and Rome.
• Stalin could not afford alienation from the
west.

21. Cambodian Genocide(1975-1979):
i. Democratic Kampuchea in the Regime of
Khmer Rouge, a communist
movement.
ii. Led by Pol Pot, an atheist.
iii. A Pure Cambodian Society.
iv. No More Free speech , freedom of
Religion.(90% Buddhists)
v. Educated People, People who could
speak English, Religious Figures.

22. • High School Of Tuol Sleng:
i. Converted into a death camp.
ii. Mass Murder
iii. Killing Field
• Buddhists And Muslims :
i. Large Population of Muslims and B
Buddhists executed.
ii. Muslims were forced to eat PORK

23. o Death Toll
i. During the 45 month communist rule, 2
million people were slaughtered.
Buddhism is dead, and the ground has been
cleared for foundations of a new revolutionary
culture
~Khmer Rouge leadership
ii. However, Khmer Rouge came to a
decline. 97% percent of the current Cambodian
population is Buddhist, while the 3% follow
Islam.

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