UniqueMixture
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Christianity fought the Enlightenment tooth and nail, and the Enlightenment succeeded in creating the world around us in spite of Christianity.
We can see the washup of that conflict on Central where we have irridentist catholics speaking against the Enlightenment with some venom.
We even have protestants speaking against the Enlightenment but mostly they are just ignorant of what happened in the 17th and 18th centuries.
And so many don't even know how the Enlightenment created the world around us.
What would you do without me to tell you?
I think the theological debates of Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Origen, etc etc set the stage for the theistic rationalists like Newton and Kant who then began asking more abstract questions and then grew brave enough to throw off religious shackles and usher us into the modern age, though it wasn't really until after the existentialists that philosophy realized it was mostly dead and ceded it's boundaries to abstract mathematicians.