Islam is batshit crazy because it deliberately emphasizes the word of God as literally dictated and unchangeable as a criticism of the Jews and Christians that were seen as a bit wooly and flimsy in the 7th century. This isn’t an enlightenment thing.
Doubtless the enlightenment softened Christianity up further but the reverse is also true - the enlightenment was only possible in a rich fragmented environment that was created because Christianity has always been vulnerable to debate and fragmentation and lacks any clear instruction to form and command a state. So any attempt to do so was always built on personality and power - very changeable and unstable things in the long term.
Meanwhile Islam’s DNA is about creating one worldwide state of Islam. Its divisions are an argument over who gets to wield this worldy power. It is a fundamentally different beast to Christiaity (eschatological pun intended)
Islam is batshit crazy because it deliberately emphasizes the word of God as literally dictated and unchangeable as a criticism of the Jews and Christians that were seen as a bit wooly and flimsy in the 7th century. This isn’t an enlightenment thing.
Doubtless the enlightenment softened Christianity up further but the reverse is also true - the enlightenment was only possible in a rich fragmented environment that was created because Christianity has always been vulnerable to debate and fragmentation and lacks any clear instruction to form and command a state. So any attempt to do so was always built on personality and power - very changeable and unstable things in the long term.
Meanwhile Islam’s DNA is about creating one worldwide state of Islam. Its divisions are an argument over who gets to wield this worldy power. It is a fundamentally different beast to Christiaity (eschatological pun intended)