In a very intriguing article entitled “The Nazi Religion: Views on Religious Statism in Germany and America,” J.F.C. Moore argues that Nazism and American conservatism are both deeply rooted in the Illuminati conspiracy. According to Moore, (1) Nazism emerged from the Thule Society, a right-wing occult lodge in 1920s Germany, which was influenced by the Illuminati, and (2) Nazism has too many resemblances of right-wing movements in America for the parallels to be coincidental. Basically Moore’s theory holds that ever since the American and French revolutions, certain rightist groups have seen anarchy as the ultimate result of too much democracy and have tried to prevent this by forming secret societies devoted to State-worship and/or Christian Socialism, combined with a Gnostic mystique of receiving guidance from heavenly or otherworldly beings. This guidance produces the state called “Illumination” and causes the initiate to feel a deep need to fight for Good and against Evil; the problem is that Good and Evil are both defined in terms of the ideology of Authoritarianism, with all rebels against “proper authority” defined as devils incarnate. J. Edgar Hoover and Congressman Otto Passman are named as members of such occult lodges. Although Moore’s style is scrupulously academic and imper- sonal, the data of his study is arranged to indicate that most right- wing groups in America, especially those with anti-Illuminati conspiracy theories, are themselves unknowing dupes of the Illu- minati.