Three lies for the price of one. And who designated this Spencer one of our "leaders"? That's four.
Anyone Spencer is “leading” is such a small faction as to be statistically insignificant. And if he’s a socialist he is not “right wing” in the American sense of the word, he’s just a leftist, and they are the same the world over.
Wasn’t he also an “Occupy” dude?
Excellent comment in the article:
“The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement in the 18th century that came on the back of the Scientific Revolution. Some of the ideals that sprang out of The Enlightenment were reason, liberty, progress, tolerance, constitutional government, market economies and the separation of church and state. This movement valued the discovery of truth through free speech and free thought, which is why Enlightenment philosophers stressed the importance of individual autonomy rather than tribes, religions and political authority. These ideals eventually spread throughout the Western world and laid the groundwork for the freedom and prosperity that many people take for granted today.
The Enlightenment’s greatest success story came in the form of the United States of America. These ideals can be clearly observed in the US Constitution and Declaration of Independence. If you live in the west – especially America — you are lucky to have had philosophers and founders that understood the importance of personal freedom and other Enlightenment principles. The US has become one of the freest and the most prosperous country as a result.”
People can not grow and reach “Enlightenment” unless they are “FREE.”
The war is between the left as the author describes it plus the Enlightenment and the Burkean Natural law thread back to and before Aquinas; the basis of our Constitution.
The “enlightenment” is the source of most of our problems.