Christianity, Divisions, Fear Manipulation, and Post Modernist Theories

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Yes it was a schism from the then purely religious and metaphysically rooted academia.

This is also correct.

I'm no expert on the schisms of the time in pan-European politics through the early reformation but I do know a lot about the secularist movement through and after the treaties of Augsburg and Westphalia and the 30 years war.

If it weren't for dissenting Protestants in Europe rebelling against the dogmatic and oppressive influences of the RCC in commanding on their religious ideals (and beliefs) contemporary western secularism would never have existed (or at least not in its current form).

It is again a mistake to discount the liberalising actions of early reformists in the new Protestant movements in Europe. A lot of people died to get a secular and hence more academically liberal orientated (sovereign) Europe.