The Enlightenment and Its Enemies: Why Superstition Persists and Spreads by Rabbi Weiss
- Angela Coppola
- Nov 13, 2022
- 1 min read
Speaker: Rabbi Weiss
Thomas Jefferson believed that by the end of the 19th century all Americans—granted freedom from religion—would become enlightened atheists or Unitarians. A generation later, the founders of Reform Judaism believed that the ethical writings of Immanuel Kant eventually would supersede the Bible’s commandments. Rabbi Weiss argues that both viewpoints failed to appreciate the siren power of Romanticism, the enemy of reason and science. Weiss became a rabbi at 75, after a distinguished career as a television producer and associate dean of the Annenberg School for Communication. He is the author of six books on writing and argumentation.
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