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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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AwarenessNow 8 Aug 15
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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

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Sometimes nasty old habits die hard.

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Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul II happened.

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too many humans too fast. We are barely off the plains. Children are out-pacing adults. No time to learn how to be different.

We are past the point of no return. Time to move north and stake a claim for farming the tundra.

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400 years is just a drop in the bucket compared to how long ago we staggered bleary-eyed out of the caves. I fear we have to give it time we as individuals can't afford to spare.
Evolutionally speaking we are and always shall be work in progress.

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I still think a big portion of the catholic leadership is for a second dark age.

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Religion is used for controlling human consciousness. Astrotheologia~

Etre Level 7 Aug 15, 2018
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Saupere aude! I think that is my new favorite phrase!

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."

@thislife Well, I had to google that phrase. So the benefit is mutual. I yearn for a greater grasp of Latin.

@Hicks66 ?
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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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Twump is heralding in a new Age of Endarkenment

godef Level 7 Aug 15, 2018
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haha. Well, he’s trying to. I’m unsure that he’ll win but he might. Society has often taken two steps backward for a time.
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