Why would the church and religious lie have had such great appeal at this point in history

The appeal of religion and church is that it’s an attempt to solve the questions of creation just like science is an attempt to solve the physical universe. We as humans don’t have the brain capacity to truly understand a lot of the universes questions but we try.

frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. but frederick disliked rifle shooting and horseback riding. unlike his father, he was interested in french literature. he enjoyed poetry and music and, like some others of the enlightenment, he scoffed at religion. his father thought him soft, frivolous and unmindful of his duties. and when frederick refused to put his signature on a right to succession, for a few moments his father strangled him.