Enlightenment atheism and false scientific objectivity eroded Western Judaism

Evidence

The Jew of the West was on his way toward a kind of ossifying denomination, toward an unconsciously depressed piety, that cut itself off and was incapable of doing anything but cutting itself off. Due to the fervent atheism and an exaggerated and totally false application of scientific objectivity, this denomination was declining from day to day, crumbling away, losing weight faster and faster, and in front of his own eyes, as if automatically and without resistance, the Jew of the West left these obvious losses to the mercy of the disaster. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 425

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Radical Enlightenment critique targets religion rather than reason itself