Hell-fire Clubs [ Clubs & Societies / Association ]
… The eighteenth century saw a proliferation of so-called Hell-fire Clubs, the members of which were invariably accused by society of promoting heavy drinking, sexual license, blasphemy, and Satanism, even if reality differed considerably from … Trinity and questioning the doctrine of the established Church’. 2 Owing to the prevailing sentiment that the fault for society’s hardships lay in its members’ moral decay and lapsed faith, such theological arguments were seen as akin to … decrying the demonic nature of these societies. In A Further and Particular Account of the Hell-Fire, Sulphur Society Clubs (1721), a list of possible members is published alongside the diabolical titles they allegedly gave …
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