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Enlightenment Era in America

Lectures in History

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You Can't Pull the Enlightenment

In the eighteenth century, people did not they did not pull the enlightenment out of their religious world views. In other words, you have this idea that still god brings natural disasters to punish us and you're going to try to understand the earthquake in terms of science. This is what i mean when i say you can't pull the enlightenment. You can't pull science, historically. It doesn't undermine i but it works alongside of it. That's o goal here. Our goals are to make sure we don't lose sight of these two important aspects of our life - church and state.

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