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Maryam Jameelah, born in the US 🇺🇸 as Margret Marcus into a Jewish family ✡️, resumed Western thought in the chapter 1 of her book 📖 "Westernization and Human Welfare" (1982), mentioning Plato, Machiavelli, Newton, Darwin, Marx, Freud, etc.
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"The society of ancient Greece was the earliest in history to divorce its institutions, customs, arts and sciences from religion […] the secular heritage of Greece was adopted, cherished and perpetuated by pagan Rome."
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"The Renaissance coincided with the rejection of Christianity ✝️ […] epitomized its spirit was Nicolo Machiavelli (1469-1532)."
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"The Protestant Reformation dealt the Church such a crippling blow, Christendom never recovered afterwards […]"
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"Intoxicated by the theory advanced by Newton (1643-1727) that the entire universe was regulated by immutable mathematical laws, the protagonists of the so-called "Age of Enlightenment" taught that all beliefs contrary to human experience and observation must be discarded."
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"Darwin's (1809-1882) concept of the evolution of man from lower forms of life introduced an entirely new scale of ethical values."
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"Freud, not content to deny the divine origin of religion, rejected the idea that religious faith was justified on any grounds."
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"Materialistic philosophy reached its climax in its chief protagonist—Karl Marx […] Schopenhauer carried materialistic philosophy to its logical conclusion."
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