Nick Spencer

When atheists stole the moral high ground

It looked bad for the Church in the 17th century when unbelievers started behaving in a more ‘Christian’ way than the constantly warring Christians

issue 09 November 2019

In 1585, Jacques du Perron presented to the court of the French king Henry III, as a kind of after-dinner entertainment, a formal logical argument for the existence of God. Du Perron, formerly a Protestant, was now well on his way to becoming a cardinal. He was a highly intelligent and rhetorically gifted man and he performed his task well, to the great pleasure of the assembled nobility.

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