Age of Enlightenment
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Criticism[edit]
Fundamentalism[edit]
Chris Hedges traces the belief in moral progress to the Enlightenment which he says has both positive and negative effects.
- "those who could not be educated and reformed, radical Enlightenment thinkers began to argue, should be eliminated so they could no longer poison human society. [...] Reigns of terror are thus the bastard children of the Enlightenment.[1]"
He blames utopian schemes for colonial atrocities, as well as Nazi concentration camps and Soviet gulags.
References[edit]
- ↑ I Don't Believe in Atheists, 2008