Tag: against enlightenment
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French Revolution: Why it failed. Why we still live in it...
"May my blood unite the French! I forgive all..." The phrase was never completed. The guilotine fell and its thud ended the life of Louis XVI, giving its place to silence. For some seconds. "Vive la démocratie" Cheers echoed across Place de la Concorde after the execution. A king had fallen. Democracy was born. But…
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The ugly angelic face of atheism (Against Enlightenment II)
Finland is a wonderful country. Everyone knows it. I do too. So I am really sad to write this with a Finnish museum as a motive. Having said that, I want to stress that Finland is awesome and a country worth visiting and certainly worth felling in love with! What I mention below apply more…
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God is Dead. Along with some babies. The era of Enlightenment as an Era of Evil.
'We promised our little boy every single day that we would take him home', said the mother of little Charlie. We want to give him a bath at home, put him in a cot which he has never slept in but we are now being denied that. We know what day our son is going…
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Against Enlightenment: The Enlightenment was not light. The Enlightenment is darkness.
Since as early as 17th century – the era of René Descartes and Benedict De Spinoza – opposition to the church and faith in “logic” was starting to be the new fashion. [1] Later on, in an era of revolutions during the 1789-1848 period, the reaction to the secular powers became synonym to reaction to…
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