11. The Illuminati Wanted to Promote Knowledge and Secularism (Truth)
The Bavarian Illuminati, founded in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt, aimed to replace existing religious and governmental institutions with a system promoting morality and reason. Their goals included opposing superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life, and abuses of state power. They sought to spread useful knowledge among the broad mass of people who were at present deprived of all education (encyclopedia.com).
