Beyond religion.

[Peter Terpstra]

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The french Revolution, which expressed so many of the new ideas of the
European Enlightenment, it is a good example of this, with its strong
anti-religious element. Of course there was also an important social
dimension to this rejection. Religion came to be regarded as
conservative, tied to tradition, and closely associate with old regimes
and all their failings. The legacy of this history, it seems, is that
for more than two hundred years, many of the most influential thinkers
and reformers in the west have viewed religion, not as an avenue to
human liberation, but as an obstacle to progress.

Marxism, one of the most powerful secular ideologies of the twentieth
century, even denounced religion as the " opium of the people"-with
tragic consequences, as communist regimes forcibly suppressed religion
in many parts of the world.

Peter