1. Christianity v. Islam
The absurdity of the idea that intelligence was inventing an arse wipe clearly represents the authors opinion that knowledge gained in medieval times was rather insignificant and trivial. ... Purging Gargantua of the perverse nature of medieval teachings, allows Ponocrates to instill the new modern mentality. ...
1. The philosophes did not accept the scientific revolutionary notion that the laws of Nature express the will of God. The philosophes made it clear that God, revelation, Scripture, and all of the other ingredients of traditional Christianity were subjects of scorn. Scholars in many countries found...