Vareiln wrote:Kantanska wrote:
If you want to make that argument that "it's the Church's fault" you have to give them credit for the Enlightenment too. After all the Holy Father did call the Crusades which brought new ideals and opportunities to Europe.
The Enlightenment was the child of the Scientific Revolution which was kind of a continuation(Although I'd call it more a re-inspiration/reinterpretation) of Renaissance thought.
and what inspired Renaissance thought?