The pope and secularism

[DMB]

Cartoon by Martin Rowson. Seems to sum it up rather well.

http://www.secularism.org.uk/uploads/download-a-hi-res-version-of-enlightenment.jpg

[Silly Sausage]

I love it :D

I've only been studying the Enlightenment for a couple of weeks now, but its been interesting finding out that the philosophes were standing against the Catholic church, which I didn't know before. From what I've read so far, it does indeed seem as though the leading figures were very much in favour of secularism and, of course, freethought.

[Jet Black]

thank god I wasn't using my cellular data allowance for that image.

[lpetrich]

What's the Pope trying to do in that cartoon? I can't quite figure it out.

In any case, the Pope certainly did a big turnaround. From

I find your lack of faith disturbing

to

You're almost more Catholic than I am

[Jet Black]

What's the Pope trying to do in that cartoon? I can't quite figure it out.

In any case, the Pope certainly did a big turnaround. From

I find your lack of faith disturbing

to

You're almost more Catholic than I am

he is about to extinguish the flame of enlightenment. Though I think that it is a little bit wrong to have the enlightenment on a base of secularism.

[DMB]

Yes. It's a little hard to see with all the black, but he's holding a candle snuffer. Could be a rather old technology for you, lpetrich! But I spent some of my early childhood in a house with no electricity where we used oil lamps and candles.