“The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power”.

They seemed like good people.

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    The same reason people hate socialists, communists, social justice advocates, landback/decolonisation proponents, vegans, radical environmentalists, etc etc etc. Propaganda, ignorance, and fear of change no matter how bad the status quo is.