Descartes - Discourse on Method

Today's society battles daily with the separation of church and state. In the United States, whether it is the small town or the sprawling metropolis, there will be some sort of conflict concerning the church and its rules warring against society's set of laws. In the early seventeenth century, the church's doctrines ruled the world. There was no separation; the kings governed the land according to their alliances with the religious leaders. There were harsh punishments for any who dared to question the church's views, no matter how logical. One of these who dared to dream, reason, an…