yep. Fake intellectuals across Europe in the late 18th and 19 centuries were obsessed with making a political and economic system that would be entirely devoid of religion. This is the cultural overthrow that started societies down the path of thinking a centralized power could just apply a cold, hard pure reason to the affairs and habits of men and dream up utopia and make it real. At each step, they believed progressively more stupid things over and over and all of those stupid things have wreaked havoc on the lives of their people that they carried out their social experiments on.
yep. Fake intellectuals across Europe in the late 18th and 19 centuries were obsessed with making a political and economic system that would be entirely devoid of religion. This is the cultural overthrow that started societies down the path of thinking a centralized power could just apply a cold, hard pure reason to the affairs and habits of men and dream up utopia and make it real. At each step, they believed progressively more stupid things over and over and all of those stupid things have wreaked havoc on the lives of their people that they carried out their social experiments on.