What keeps you from murdering? Fear of being caught and put in prison for 10 years? What if you think you could get away with it?5. The abandonment of religion was the ‘gift’ of The Enlightenment, and of the French Revolution.
The Enlightenment gave the view that through science and reason, man could make himself replace God.
People seem to have missed the greatest difference, and the great loss: science can tell us what we can do, but not what we should do.
Honestly, sweetie, if the only thing that keeps you from going on a murderous rampage is your fear of an invisible sky pixie, we should all worry.
Game Over.