Religion During The Enlightenment

At the time of the Enlightenment, many people’s views on religion were changing. Most of the views you see that change are those of the philosopher’s. Because this was the age of reasoning, many viewed religion and God as a concept that could not be applied to reasoning. Many found that religion did not fit in with their idea of reason. They found that the definition they grew up with about God did not have any reasoning to it. Many philosophers in the Enlightenment period did happen to be or become atheists.
In this time, there were still a select few who still believed they could fit reasoning in with theology and believed they could prove the existence of God. Two of these philosophers were Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Baruch Spinoza.