Guno צְבִי (01-23-2022)
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Guno צְבִי (01-23-2022)
wow
"This process began in Britain in the 18th century and from there spread to other parts of the world. Although used earlier by French writers, the term Industrial Revolution was first popularized by the English economic historian Arnold Toynbee (1852–83) to describe Britain's economic development from 1760 to 1840.
Industrial Revolution | Definition, History, Dates, Summary ..."
This is the Period when the English Land Barons threw the Tenant Farmers off the Land they had Farmed for Generations in Favor of Sheep. (Wool, more profitable now)
(as a side note, the Tenant Farmers ended up in Cities, where they became Thieves, their Wives became Prostitutes, their Children became Pickpockets)
No it wasn't. Most of the Enlightenment thinkers, from Locke, to Hobbes, to Ben Franklin, to Montesquieu were believing christians.
Church oppression largely ended between the late Middle Ages and the early Modern era because Churches had been made subordinate and subservient to the monarchy.
So what oppression there was in general in the 18th century, was actually political oppression carried out by the monarchy.
What pissed people off about the church leadership was the corruption and hypocrisy.
But atheism did not really account for itself very well during the Enlightenment. Once state atheism came to power in the French Revolution, that was when the Great Terror began - state sponsored terrorism and oppression on a scale that horrified people.
I would say atheism and rejection of the ecclesiastical authority of the Church really didn't happen until the late 19th and early 20th century in Europe. Especially in the wake of WW1.
ThatOwlWoman (01-23-2022)
There is a Lesson to be Learned from the Industrial Revolution.
'Machines affecting Human Jobs' (like Tenant Farming). 'Humans losing their Ability to Feed their Families' (like Serfs being forced off their Traditional Livelihood)
--->'Automation Revolution'. It's here. Now.
Cypress (01-23-2022)
It's not too complex. This guy:
"Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, and noted Renaissance humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from October 1529 to May 1532.
Died: 6 July 1535 (aged 57); Tower Hill, Londo...
Monarch: Henry VIII
Born: 7 February 1478; City of London, England
Thomas More - Wikipedia"
... wrote about Hanging 20 people a day for being 'Thieves'.
I know the German sociologist Max Weber made a case that industrial capitalism came first and foremost to England, Netherlands, Germany, United States in part because of Protestantism, which as a sect of Christianity does promote a focus on productive works in this world and the accumulation of wealth.
ThatOwlWoman (01-23-2022)
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