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Léo Taxil

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Marie Joseph Gabriel Antoine Jogand-Pagès, better known by the pen name Léo Taxil (March 21, 1854 – March 31, 1907), was a French writer and journalist who became known for his strong anti-Catholic and anti-clerical views. [1]

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Abbé Larudan

Abbé Larudan was an anonymous 18th Century French writer—possibly a clergyman for the Catholic Church, though this is unconfirmed—who is largely known for his Anti-Masonic writing, The Freemasons Crushed.

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Abel Clarin de la Rive

Abel Clarin de la Rive (1855, Chalon-sur-Saône, France – 1914, Chalon-sur-Saône) was a French historian, essayist, journalist, and anti-Masonic writer.

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Anti-Masonry

Anti-Masonry (alternatively called Anti-Freemasonry) is defined as "avowed opposition to Freemasonry".

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Édouard Drumont

Édouard Adolphe Drumont (3 May 1844 – 5 February 1917) was a French journalist and writer.

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Baphomet

Baphomet (from Medieval Latin Baphometh, Baffometi, Occitan Bafometz) is an idol of a deity that the Knights Templar were accused of worshipping and that subsequently was incorporated into disparate occult and mystical traditions.

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Canonization of Joan of Arc

Joan of Arc (1412–1431) was formally canonized as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church on 16 May 1920 by Pope Benedict XV in his bull Divina Disponente, which concluded the canonization process that the Sacred Congregation of Rites instigated after a petition of 1869 of the French Catholic hierarchy.

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Gnosticism in modern times

Gnosticism in modern times includes a variety of contemporary religious movements, stemming from Gnostic ideas and systems from ancient Roman society.

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History of Freemasonry

The history of Freemasonry encompasses the origins, evolution and defining events of the fraternal organis<!-- NOTE: THIS ARTICLE USES UK SPELLING... which spells this word with an "s" and not a "z". -->ation known as Freemasonry.

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Jules Doinel

Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel (December 8, 1842, Moulins, Allier &ndash; March 16 or 17, 1903), also simply Jules Doinel, was an archivist and the founder of the first Gnostic church in modern times.

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La Bible amusante

La Bible amusante pour les grands et les enfants (The Amusing Bible for Grown-ups and Children) was a book by Léo Taxil with illustrations by Frid'rick published in 1882 by Libraire anticléricale, in which he pointed out what he considered to be inconsistencies, errors and false beliefs.

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Lions Clubs International

Lions Clubs International (LCI) is an international secular, non-political service organization established originally in 1916 in chicago, Illinois by Melvin Jones.

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List of hoaxes

The following are lists of hoaxes.

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Lucifer

Lucifer is a name that, according to dictionaries of the English language, refers either to the Devil or to the planet Venus when appearing as the morning star.

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Luciferianism

Luciferianism is a belief system that venerates the essential characteristics that are affixed to Lucifer.

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New World Order (conspiracy theory)

The New World Order or NWO is claimed to be an emerging clandestine totalitarian world government by various conspiracy theories.

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Palladists

Palladists is a name for an alleged Theistic Satanist society or members of that society.

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Papal ban of Freemasonry

The Catholic Church first prohibited Catholics from membership in Masonic organizations and other secret societies in 1738.

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Religious persecution in Communist Romania

The Romania Anti-Religious Campaign, refers to the anti-religious campaign initiated by the Socialist Republic of Romania, which under the doctrine of Marxist–Leninist atheism, took a hostile stance against religion, and set its sights on the ultimate goal of an atheistic society, wherein religion would be recognized as the ideology of the bourgeoisie.

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Taxil hoax

The Taxil hoax was an 1890s hoax of exposure by Léo Taxil intended to mock not only Freemasonry but also the Catholic Church's opposition to it.

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The Prague Cemetery

The Prague Cemetery (Il cimitero di Praga) is the sixth novel by Italian author Umberto Eco.

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The Ragged Edge of Science

The Ragged Edge of Science is a science book by L. Sprague de Camp, illustrated by Don Simpson.

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William Guy Carr

William James Guy Carr (R.D. Commander R.C.N. (R)) (2 June 1895 – 2 October 1959) was an English-born Canadian naval officer, author, conspiracy theorist, and accused by some of being an anti-Semite.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léo_Taxil

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