by Daniel Gurpide Scientific and technological developments undermined belief in

by Daniel Gurpide

Scientific and technological developments undermined belief in the existence of God. Already in the eighteenth century the idea of intellectually proving the existence of God was abandoned, and Rousseau and Kant may be found positing a belief in God based instead on emotions or values. In a culture in which God had died owing to the development of science, the values of Judeo-Christian slave morality were duly taken up by the causes of democracy, socialism, equal rights – and other movements of the weak and ‘oppressed’.