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Enlightenment ideas were slow to influence the lives of Europeans. Name
One reason is the church. The Catholic Church was a major influence in Europe that most of the people looked to for guidance, it also was the main church in most of Europe. The Catholic church felt threatened by new ideas that the enlightenment brought on, so most people were scared to go against the church.
Second - They engaged in censorship, burning books
and imprisoning writers, to restrict access to
information. Caption - They wanted to avoid censorship, so
they disguised their ideas in fiction.