post enlightenment turn

[Ian Livingston]

It's good to know that folks like the popes of the medieval inquisitions
and crusades weren't really as terrible as we think they were, hm?

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 1:17 PM, CHRISTIAN kumpe <Kumpe3000 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Re: post enlightenment turn
>
> My wife and I talked about the pope's speech in the German parliament last
> year. If we got him right, pope claimed that enlightenment itself laid the
> foundation to all the totalitarian terrors, because it took away  these god
> given limitations, which lend conventional tyrants their excuses to run the
> show, and gave way for freewheeling free thinkers to pursue their limitless
> goals.
> So if we accept pope's approach, no turn was ever necessary to make us
> suffer, enlightenment itself was the wrong turn...
>
> Best,
> Christian.
>
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