Wait a minute. Not all Christians agree on everything? This is new to me. (Note sarcasm)
Enlightenment values are indeed scriptural and follow the teachings of Christ.
The only reason those "traditional" (Catholic) Christians opposed them is because they called the authority of the Catholic Church into question.
Enlightenment values opposed the false and dogmatic views of the Catholic Church, not the Bible.
Probably because that is a dumb way to decide things.
"The
Age of Enlightenment (also known as the
Age of Reason or simply the
Enlightenment)
[1][note 1] was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th to 19th century.
[3]
The Enlightenment emerged out of a European intellectual and scholarly movement known as
Renaissance humanism. Some consider the publication of
Isaac Newton's
Principia Mathematica (1687) as the first major enlightenment work. French historians traditionally date the Enlightenment from 1715 to 1789, from the death of
Louis XIV of France until the outbreak of the
French Revolution that ended the
Ancien Regime. Most end it with the beginning of the 19th century. Philosophers and scientists of the period widely circulated their ideas through meetings at
scientific academies,
Masonic lodges,
literary salons,
coffeehouses and in
printed books,
journals, and
pamphlets. The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the Church and paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. A variety of 19th-century movements, including
liberalism and
neoclassicism, trace their intellectual heritage to the Enlightenment.
[4]
The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the sovereignty of
reason and
the evidence of the senses as the primary sources of
knowledge and advanced ideals such as
liberty,
progress,
toleration,
fraternity,
constitutional government and
separation of church and state.
[5][6] In France, the central doctrines of the Enlightenment philosophers were
individual liberty and
religious tolerance, in opposition to an
absolute monarchy and the fixed dogmas of the
Roman Catholic Church. The Enlightenment was marked by an emphasis on the
scientific method and
reductionism, along with increased questioning of religious orthodoxy—an attitude captured by
Immanuel Kant's essay
Sapere aude (Dare to know).
[7]
.....
Science played an important role in Enlightenment discourse and thought. Many Enlightenment writers and thinkers had backgrounds in the sciences and associated scientific advancement with the overthrow of religion and traditional authority in favour of the development of free speech and thought. Scientific progress during the Enlightenment included the discovery of
carbon dioxide (fixed air) by the chemist
Joseph Black, the argument for
deep time by the geologist
James Hutton and the invention of the
condensing steam engine by
James Watt.
[25] The experiments of Lavoisier were used to create the first modern chemical plants in Paris and the experiments of the
Montgolfier Brothers enabled them to launch the first manned flight in a hot-air balloon on 21 November 1783 from the
Château de la Muette, near the
Bois de Boulogne.
[26]"
Age of Enlightenment - Wikipedia
