radorth Wrote:So I take it, by the deafening silence, we agree that Protestants led the Enlightenment, from Newton to Payle, to Locke, to the Founders to the abolitionists, (Quakers and Methodists mostly), with help from 2 Catholics noted on the science side.
Acutally, that deafening silence is me not giving a shit one way or the other.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell