>>> Francis railed against the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, Charles Darwin and abortion.
No point in getting into the latter two here, but anybody who rails against the first two or thinks the world prior to the Renaissance and Enlightment was a better place is completely insane.
Anybody who thinks Scheaffer held that view has never read him.
He did not “rail” against these. I have seen his series on it.
He points out clearly that the Renaissance/Enlightenment in Southern Europe was based in humanism, which ultimately could not answer the big questions and because man is its foundation, moral relativism makes everything ultimately meaningless. The Reformation in the North was based in Christianity and produced far different results.
You wrote:
“anybody who rails against the first two or thinks the world prior to the Renaissance and Enlightment was a better place is completely insane.”
The Age of Faith was a better time in some ways.
“No point in getting into the latter two here, but anybody who rails against the first two or thinks the world prior to the Renaissance and Enlightment was a better place is completely insane.”
Please don’t judge Francis Schaeffer by what this biased reporter says.