The Enlightenment was a movement between the 17th and 18th century that focused more on an individual view with reason, rather than simply a traditional view. Most of the views of the Enlightenment focused on the goodness of human rationality, and is believed to be the illuminated view that contrast views of the dark Middle Ages. This period of time brought on a religion of its own known as Deism. Most men of the Enlightenment quickly took onto Deism. Men like John Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu, and many others.
Deism is recognized as a religion, when in fact it is more a perspective on the behavior of God. Like Christians, Deist do believe in a supreme God. They would agree that one great spiritual being created the heavens and earth in his image, but that would be as far as they agreed. While Christianity perceives God as a being that is constantly interacting in the lives of every single living thing on the earth; Deism sees God to be like a Clockmaker. God creates the things we perceive as reality, but he isn 't constantly interfering. They believe that he pays it no mind, besides checking to make sure it is still running every once in a while.
This idea coincided with the focus on individualism, and allowed
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Since the Deist believed that God had very little influence in the world, it was reasonable to want a divide between the two things. Religion is a very grey topic with no definite right or wrong. Everyone believes completely different things, and there is no way to prove who is right or wrong. Humans strive for that understanding of what is the absolute truth. We enjoy knowing we are correct, and physically need to have a contradiction. Whether humans like it or not we will always strive for the best answer, and without being wrong the fun of learning would be gone. The purpose of searching for an answer wouldn 't exist, and we would never