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“Women are the sexual slaves of men. They have been convinced that they are the "weaker" sex through a variety of manipulative devices in the Judeo-Christian tradition.”

Men Has Beens Christian Sex Women Enlightenment Tradition Slave Convinced Variety Devices Manipulative

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I sometimes call my new system 'Italian pagan Catholicism,' but it could more accurately be called 'pragmatic liberalism,' with roots in Enlightenment political philosophy. It is a synthesis of the enduring dual elements in our culture, pagan and Judeo-Christian, Romantic and Classic.”

Sometimes Philosophy Christian Political Culture Elements Enlightenment Roots Endure Classic Liberalism Catholicism Italian Political Philosophy Pagan Pragmatic Synthesis

Author:Camille Paglia

“If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on the nature of God and man, enlightenment that the latter lacks. Now, this is not at all the case; for Christianity, instead of clarifying, gives rise to an infinite multitude of obscurities and difficulties.”

Ifs Men Giving Reason Would Be Christian Natural Christianity Cases Atheism Offers Enlightenment Difficulty Infinite Positive Atheism Former Latter Multitudes Obscurity Clarifying

Author:Denis Diderot

“During the centuries-long process of Reformation and Enlightenment, Christian churches had to accept some things they didn't like. Islam will have to do the same; otherwise it isn't part of Europe.”

Long Christian Process Church Accepting Century Enlightenment Europe Islam Reformation Christian Church

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“The religious wars showed that the Christian faith was no longer Europe's unifying force. A new common ground was needed, and it was found in reason, which is something that is shared by all of mankind. This was one of the roots of the Enlightenment and its concept of universal human rights.”

“We who don't want radical Islam to spread must compete with the agents of radical Islam. I want to see what would happen if Christians, feminists and Enlightenment thinkers were to start proselytizing in the Muslim community.”

Ifs Want Happens Christian Community Enlightenment Islam Feminist Spread Agents Radical Thinker Radical Islam Proselytizing Muslim Community Enlightenment Thinkers

Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“The Protestant reformation was an attempt to recast the Christian faith in terms of the new learning of the 16th century, the enlightenment learning. It was the first time that the Christian church did not have the capacity to keep itself unified as it recast itself, so it split into Protestant and Catholic traditions.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the basis of the constitution written at our nation's founding - null and void.”

May Christian Nations Social Written Enlightenment Bases Constitution Believer Contracts Void Biblical Founding Social Contract Null

Author:Cal Thomas

“Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.”

Christian Modern Enlightenment Enthusiasm Zeal Jargon Clueless

Book:Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life

Source: Your Mind Matters: The Place of the Mind in the Christian Life

“So I cast my lot with Him-not the one who claimed wisdom, Confucius; or the one who claimed enlightenment, Buddha; or the one who claimed to be a prophet, Muhammad, but with the one who claimed to be God in human flesh. The one who declared, 'Before Abraham was born, I am'-and proved it.”

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Author:Norman Geisler

“Our Christian faith - and correlatively, our account of apologetics - is tainted by modernism when we fail to appreciate the effects of sin on reason. When this is ignored, we adopt an Enlightenment optimism about the role of a supposedly neutral reason in the recognition of truth.”

Reason Christian Sin Roles Failing Effects Enlightenment Appreciate Optimism Accounts Recognition Ignored Modernism Christian Faith Tainted Apologetic

Book:Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

Source: Who's Afraid of Postmodernism? (The Church and Postmodern Culture): Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church

“In short, the enlightenment privatized marriage, taking it out of the public sphere, and redefined its purpose as individual gratification, not any 'broader good' such as reflecting God's nature, producing character, or raising children. Slowly but surely, this newer understanding of the meaning of marriage has displaced the older ones in Western culture.”

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Book:The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

Source: The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God

“Education is one of the greatest gift for mankind. Each one of us must seek this enlightenment.”

Source: Think Great: Be Great!