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Enlightenment Era in America

Lectures in History

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The Enlightenment, Isn't It?

If you took that idea to its logical conclusion, where would you end uphumanism, or what, atheism? Right? You have everything's reas and everything can only explain a, be explained by reasonyou know, i guess you could try to apply reason to kind of prove the existence of god. But ultimately, christianity and all religions do have a certain dimension of faith to them, right? Believe, right? Whichitens to be a very irrational idea. I mean, miracle, miracles are an irrational idea. That's not an enlightenment thing. And if you were living in a pre enlightenment world, how would you interpret that earthquake? What would be your responsese

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