Enlighten Me

Sweep of Reason examines whether the Enlightenment was a good thing in the face of calls for an Islamic Enlightenment to combat fundamentalism (i.e.--terrorism). As a religious conservative, I view the Enlightenment with a cautious eye, even though I don't believe in following a religion unquestioningly. Christian fundamentalism puts a straightjacket on the soul. The problem I see with the Enlightenment is that it generates presumptious little twits who proclaim any religious person is automatically ignorant and unsophisticated, while one who hods no religious belief is an urbane intellectual. There is, of course, no explanation on how an ex-Christian who becomes an atheist suddenly gains 20+ IQ points. Random chance, one assumes.