The Age of Reason Begins: The Faiths Fight for Power

We are the creations of history. We are also the creations of the history in this book. We cannot understand ourselves without understanding this history.

The early modern era in Europe set the mold for the Western world today. It was a complex, tragic, yet pivotal time. It marked the transition between the dominance of the Catholic church throughout Western Europe and the present age of science, reason, and skepticism.

The path through this transition was an exciting yet bloody and sorrowful...