Within the Dominican Order Savonarola was repackaged as an innocuous, purely devotional figure and he inspired many of those who led the Counter Reformation. This was an effort to revive and to reform the Catholic Church to combat the rise of Protestantism
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Democratic government get their power from the people.
The Enlightenment promoted the ideas of a belief in progress, and a faith in science. That religion was not the only way to view the world and live. It promoted a more secular outlook.
