07-20-2016, 06:32 PM
(07-20-2016, 06:25 PM)Benton Wrote:
I'll just leave this one alone. I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.
Where's the confusion? The second sentence addressed..
"Just by the sheer number of Muslims and the countries they practice in, they're going to have plenty of people scrutinizing things."
The Enlightenment:
The Enlightenment (also known as the Age of Enlightenment;[1] in French: le Siècle des Lumières, lit. 'the Century of Lights'; and in German: Aufklärung, 'Enlightenment')[2] was a philosophical movement which dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century. The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on reason as the primary source of authority and legitimacy, and came to advance ideals such as liberty, progress, tolerance, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.[3][4] In France, the central doctrines of les Lumières were individual liberty and religious tolerance in opposition to an absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the Roman Catholic Church.[5] The Enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the scientific method and reductionism along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy.[6]
I asked when Islam experienced a similar period.
