The Christian Luciferians

One big theme of the Bible is that the world is fallen, tainted with original sin and in need of repair. If you've got a positive view of the natural world or of the universe to start with, you can shelve the bible with other fables. There's really nothing in it for you.

It seems like many of the Enlightenment era political thinkers and scientific thinkers were obsessed with the idea of the fallen world in need of repair, but thought of it as a philosophically materialistic DIY project rather than a spiritual exercise. They moved the focus of all thinking to the material world. (Redemption via the technological singularity)

Their mode of thinking is well illustrated by how biologists today think of animals, especially domestic animals like dogs and cats and horses. They eschew the commonsense daily experience of millions of people who have companion animals and favor variations on the theme of animals being some type of animated meat, and by extension people being some type of animated meat.

The anti-Masonic era in the US was a sort of moral panic about free masons around 1830. (This movement probably gave rise to Mormonism.) There's similar moralism about masons in alt-media attitudes about masonry, today. One of the common criticism is that masonry is Satanism in disguise.

I think it is Promethean (which is identical to saying its luciferian) and sees man as his own messiah. It is a sort of upside-down Christianity. God is missing, like an absentee landlord, and it's up to man to take what they imagine his rightful place to be, that is, managing the material world for the sake of man. I would not be surprised if the ostensibly Christian congregations in the Washington DC area consciously preach this materialistic teaching.