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The Enlightenment was also in a certain manner criticized this time by a number of traditionalist thinkers who blamed it for weakening traditions and religion without replacing anything in their place other than a misguided confidence in reason. These conservative thinkers saw that the Enlightenment was mainly a conflict versus the inherited religion, which is a losing situation or battle since that religion is spiritual and not founded on materialistic or rational grounds. They believe that the Enlightenment is a backer for atheism and disbelief. They also charge the Enlightenment thinkers by focusing on the secular and rational rather than the holy and spiritual, therefore disestablish the religious ties that gathered through centuries different

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