At the dawn of the Enlightenment, popular religion, both Western Europe and Orthodoxy, were still very much based on omens, miracles, and witchcraft, even in Protestant areas of the book.
However, enlightened persons began to call all religion superstition.
Yet, on the other hand, they also wanted popular religious observance to continue to serve the interests of the state in keeping order and obedience in society, and of those in rewarding clerical positions in church hierarchies.
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