Dr. John Rao describes how the Jansenists saw the Church’s attitude towards nature as deluded and overblown. The Enlightenment believed that nature could soar if only freed from the Church’s effort to corrupt it with a fraudulent supernatural guidance. Both groups promoted their understanding of nature and ridiculed the Church’s vision as a lie through a development of the popular Press and the creation of explosive issues–causes–that put orthodox in an absurdly bad light.
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