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Rodney Stark comes out swinging right from the bell in „The Victory of Reason,“ his fiercely polemical account of the rise of capitalism. Stark, the author of „The Rise of Christianity“ and „One True God: Historical Consequences of Monotheism,“ is sick and tired of reading that religion impeded scientific progress and stunted human freedom. To those who say that capitalism and democracy developed only after secular-minded thinkers turned the light of reason on the obscurantism of the Dark Ages, he has a one-word answer: nonsense.
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