Although the enlightened principles of the Encyclopédie are
obvious to anyone who peruses the text, it's atheism is a bit more subtle... but very real.
For
example, under the entry for
Anthropophagy (slick word for
cannibalism)
there is a
reference to the entry on
Transubstantiation (slick word for the
Catholic ritual of eating a cracker which supposedly is a small piece
of
Christ's body). Get it? Cannibalism...
I'm sure the authority figures looked right over that one, and those who were enlightened enough to understand had quite a chuckle.