Enlightenment scholars sought to curtail the political power of organized religion and thereby prevent another age of intolerant religious war. Spinoza determined to remove politics from contemporary and historical theology (e.g. disregarding Judaic law). Moses Mendelssohn advised affording no political weight to any organized religion, but instead recommended that each person follow what they found most convincing. A good religion based in instinctive morals and a belief in God should not theoretically need force to maintain order in its believers, and both Mendelssohn and Spinoza judged religion on its moral fruits, not the logic of its theology. COUNT 4
QSN1 Did Mendelssohn and Spinoza judge religion on its moral fruits or logic of its theology?? ANS1 moral fruits QSN2 What did Enlightenment scholars seek to curtail and thereby prevent another age of intolerant religious war? ANS2 organized religion QSN3 Spinoza was determined to remove what from contemporary and historical theology? ANS3 politics QSN4 Did Moses Mendelssohn advise to follow a specific organized religion, or to whatever one found most convincing? ANS4 what they found most convincing