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Originally Posted by Henini
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I stand corrected I guess.
But we both know clergy was pushing it's fat aggression on people. They revolted and tried getting rid of them. For the right to not burn at the stake for not going around treating every clergymen as gods.
in other words, they had it coming.
but like I said, I stand corrected.
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The Enlightenment was a reaction to to the intolerance and anti-intellectualism of the church, yes. But it also ended up with cults like the Jacobins, who killed priests or anyone harboring them on sight, who outlawed private worship, and literally celebrated a goddess they called "reason." That isn't rational or scientific. It's insanity. Fundamentalism, whether its coloring is secular or religious, is the same disease. Whenever you get a group of fundamentalists together, it's always a short step until they arrive at the brilliant idea that "well, if we can't make certain segments of society 'civilized' (in the way we define civilization), then they must be eradicated."