On the other hand, there were certain Enlightenment achievements which were explicitly the result of Enlightenment thought. The end of censorship, suffrage, the end of anti-Jewish codes, etc, were all pushed for by people operating under explicitly Enlightenment principles.
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At the same time that Macaulay was arguing for expanding oppression in India, he was advocating for ending the rotten boroughs system and lifting legal restraints on Jews in politics.
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And the civil rights movement 100 years later too.
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Not exactly. Diderot was one of the very few openly atheist philosophers and he categorically condemned slavery. Furthermore, while many abolitionists in America were deeply religious, so too were the cruelest of slave masters according to Frederick Douglas:
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and even within the non abolitionist mainstream you had people like Lincoln who definitely were influenced by the Enlightenment, but filtered through a number of factors like frontier education and life that put a more modern spin on it
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The mistake is to think that either religious thought or Enlightenment thought are monoliths. Both are enormous and diverse groups containing racist, anti-racist, and part racist/part anti-racist sentiments.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Make Chrisitianity Post-Millennial Again
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