They exist (the real illuminati and the real freemasons) because they wanted to do things in a secular manner. Thats where people got the false idea that they are satanists or whatever because they did not want to involve a bias to religion (not just christianity) in their endeavours so that they may also serve non-religious people without discrimination.
Take the freemasons for example. It's a fcking club of masons, period. They didn't want to be "the masons club - christians members and beneficiaries only." but because people at the time were hung up on religion and anything secular was frowned upon or deemed satanic. That's just like demonizing the Red Cross because they aren't a christian organization, if that kind of stigma was applied today. Or the Rotary Club was the work of satan because they don't do their medical missions in the name of jesus.
If anything, this illuminati thing is a sort of distraction to the things you should really be wary about as a christian. as a christian you'd be ashamed that petty things like american culture and conspiracy theories and superstitions mess up your perception of the truth, while things like poverty, discrimination, war, violence, which are everywhere and found in abundance, unsettle you less than the fcking american conspiracy version of the illuminati.
We might have differences regarding our view towards illuminati bro, but what I am more concerned of is Christian artists and so called pastors who are misleading the churches and if they are being somebody or something. For this the bible has warned us.
Mark 13:22 - For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if [it were] possible,
even the elect. This is what I want to point out. To be vigilant..
1 Peter 5:8King James Version (KJV)
8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
And regarding the illuminati, and masons, they are using symbols, they say it affects our unconscious mind,. But whether it affects the unconscious mind or not,..The
SYMBOLS that they're using are not
GODLY. And if it's not Godly, it's of the devil.
and regarding the things like poverty, discrimination, war, violence, which are everywhere and found in abundance that you talked about, the Bible clearly tells us that these are signs of the END TIMES.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 ESV
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.
Matthew 24:7 ESV
For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.
Luke 21:11 ESV
There will be great earthquakes, and in various places famines and pestilences. And there will be terrors and great signs from heaven.