They where hated by the Catholics of that time, but loved by other religions, who suffered persecutions from the beast.
Today Freemasonry gathers members of all religions and more of the Christian (Lutheran, Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist, even Catholic and others).
The Methodist church of Passo Fundo (1912) started in a freemason lodge.
Here the pastor and over half of the pastors of the region are freemasons and most high members are the ones that built two hospitals in the city in communion with freemasons of spiritualist religion (and there is another, catholic).
The Methodist Church is a refuge of freemasons and ecumenism, I, in my devotion and Love, worked and devoted the most for the Church, and was a part of this evil, I think many of you still are, but God showed me, it happened to me what happened with Law devoted, the Pharisee Paul God made him fall of the horse and blinded, so He could see who He was supporting and persecute Christ. Acts 9-
4- And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?
5- And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And

the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: [it is] hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
 (He from persecutor was being persecuted and hated. This is the price!).
My wife made meals and I lived well with all; and I sat at the table with the priest and the pastors of ecumenism, after with the Evangelical pastors and believers of many Christian denominations; the Methodist gathered all the daughters (descendents – are all the same).
With over two centuries of battles, the sons of the dragon are back in power, creating a great empire (overcoming the Roman Empire), dominating the world with chiefs of governments, bankers, company owners, dominating everything, newspapers, TV, schools, Universities, and courthouses (with freemason lawyers, prosecutors, judges; who can win a cause from this brotherhood?).
In politics, who wins the elections if He doesn´t belong to freemasons, belongs to the beast?
In churches the freemasons dominate trough pastors, members and even Catholics, rich conservatives, Sadducees of today, this is why the beast and his 7 heads (daughters) started a new war that goes till the end,