RE: Christianity, Divisions, Fear Manipulation, and Post Modernist Theories
July 17, 2013 at 2:38 pm
(July 17, 2013 at 2:34 pm)fr0d0 Wrote:(July 17, 2013 at 9:47 am)Chas Wrote: The Enlightenment was the basis for the progress of the West.
Christianity spawned the enlightenment.
More accurately Protestant reformism, not Christianity per se. After all. The RCC had retarded scientific and technological advancement for generations until schisms became widespread.
But it's a mistake to discount the ideas of Protestantism in furthering secularism and early humanism.
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