So it's been 400 years since the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment. Why are we still dealing with archaic religious belief systems?
From Wikipedia, The Age of Enlightenment (1620-1789)
"The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the Church and paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries….The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy and came to advance ideals like liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government and separation of church and state... In France, the central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers were individual liberty and religious tolerance [ I imagine in the sense that the Catholic church is not the only religious “authority”], in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church... The Enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism, along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy—an attitude captured by the phrase Sapere aude, "Dare to know" "
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It took the Catholic Church almost 400 years to forgive and exonerate Galileo, so there you have it. if they had their way, we'd still be back there clinging to the turtel's back
starwatcher-al
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Aug 16, 2018
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Saupere aude! I think that is my new favorite phrase!
thislife
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Aug 15, 2018
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I dunno if HP Lovecraft shared that frame of mind. 
@Hicks66 Thanks for challenging me to seek more knowledge. ? "Forbidden, dark, esoterically veiled knowledge is a central theme in many of Lovecraft's works. Many of his characters are driven by curiosity or scientific endeavor, and in many of his stories the knowledge they uncover proves Promethean in nature, either filling the seeker with regret for what they have learned, destroying them psychologically, or completely destroying the person who holds the knowledge."
Fear Superstition and ignorance all go hand-in-hand statistics are showing that the more educated and affluent a country is the higher the statistics are for people being atheist
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