1. Enlightenment
... , religion has played an important role in the actions of groups or individuals. Rulers were named in the face of religion, monuments built in honor of deities, scriptures written of holy tales. Lives were lost in the name of religion, both in the sense of martyrs dying for their beliefs and in wars fought for religion, such as the Crusades. In ... to the people, losing sight of reason and logic in this misinterpretation. As the influence of religion diminished during the progression of Enlightenment idealism, religious writers attempted to revive the spirit of Puritanism through their l...
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