{"id":2420,"date":"2020-06-13T15:07:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T15:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/?p=2420"},"modified":"2021-02-16T18:39:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T18:39:50","slug":"the-unenlightened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditext.com\/wordpress\/2020\/06\/13\/the-unenlightened\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unenlightened"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\n\nI will start with the Wikipedia description of the “Age of Enlightenment”<\/a> or, as it also may be called, “Age of Reason.” Post-modernists refer to this and other cultural phenomena as “Modernity.”<\/a><\/p>\n

\nPut as simply as I can, prior to the 17th century, there was no scientific knowledge to speak of. [I mean that prior to the 17th century books like the following could not be written:<\/p>

John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science,<\/em><\/a> 1875.<\/p>\n

Andrew Dickson White, A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology<\/em><\/a>, 1897.]<\/p>

There was, of course mathematical and some astronomical science, some technical knowledge, common sense, the principle of contradiction, and lots of religion and superstition.\nWith the scientific discoveries, there occured a challenge to religion and superstitions. Those who embraced logic and science became “enlightened.” Those who resisted logic and science remained “unenlightened.” Enlightenment — as I see it — implies secularism (irreligion or non-religion). [There is an organization called “Brights.”<\/a> It could just as well also be called “Enlightened.”] <\/p>\n

\nSo, who are the unenlightened? For starters, all those who embrace a religion. So, using the results of the 2015 PEW poll, 84% of the world is probably unenlightened, and there probably are some in the remaining 16% who are unaffiliated with any religion, who are also unenlightened for embracing some other form of superstition.\n\n<\/p>

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Talking about enlightenment, here is an enlightening poll: 1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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