Reply #253: Muslims have never gone through such a period. The Age of Reason

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refers to the Enlightenment when philosophers advocated rationality as a means to establish an authoritative system of ethics, aesthetics, and knowledge. Cite me one Muslim scholar who would have wrote anything similar to the following:

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

from Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, 1794

http://libertyonline.hypermall.com/Paine/AOR-Frame.html