This is rather confusing. I know.
Let's go back a little farther....
It starts out, long ago, as an affirmation of the ' triumph ' of the Reformation against dogmatism, a so called
' Enlightened ' anticlericalism, directed first against Roman clerics.
One of the complexities is that a multiplicity of Protestant clericalisms also then immediately arose, as a result of the Reformation, to fill the vacuum, and to vie with that of Rome. Later anti clericalism, then, of course, had to attack them viciously too.
That vicious attack on all clericalisms, Catholic or Protestant, is what has come to be known, since the mid 18th Century, as Enlightenment humanism.
The attack on all religions, which emerged in the late 18th and 19th Centuries in the West, is the heir to these intellactual traditions.
So, what has all this to do with a so called Whig Interpretation of History?
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