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Kant was raised and died a Lutheran but questioned and analyzed his own faith.  Kant transformed [[Protestantism]] from a dependence on a literal interpretation of the Bible into a dependence on each person’s own mind as the ultimate religious authority.  He shifted the [[faith]] away from the Bible and towards a dogmatic [[Mind#Voluntarism|voluntarism]] and sentimentalism.  Phenomena "are nothing but ideas, and cannot exist at all beyond our minds."  He concluded that revelation and churches can at best be "adventitious aids."  

Kant was raised and died a Lutheran but questioned and analyzed his own faith.  Kant transformed [[Protestantism]] from a dependence on a literal interpretation of the Bible into a dependence on each person’s own mind as the ultimate religious authority.  He shifted the [[faith]] away from the Bible and towards a dogmatic [[Mind#Voluntarism|voluntarism]] and sentimentalism.  Phenomena "are nothing but ideas, and cannot exist at all beyond our minds."  He concluded that revelation and churches can at best be "adventitious aids."  

Protestant Lutheran theologians such as a Slovak [[Jozef Rohacek]] however regarded Kant for a strong anti-Christian personality that significantly helped extremist [[Evolutionism]] {{#tag:ref|In this respect, Rohacek defines Radical Evolutionism as [[naturalistic]] worldview based on speculative way of thinking, on fabricated apparent evidence incapable to withstand thorough investigation and on reluctance to any meaningful critical exposition.<ref name="Rohacek"/>|group=note}} towards undreamed-of expansion. Rohacek argues that although Kant's evolutionary philosophy (expressed in such evolutionary ideas such as, for example, cursory speculations on human evolution<ref>{{cite book

Protestant Lutheran theologians such as Slovak [[Jozef Rohacek]], however, regarded Kant as a strong anti-Christian personality that significantly helped extremist [[Evolutionism]] {{#tag:ref|In this respect, Rohacek defines Radical Evolutionism as [[naturalistic]] worldview based on speculative way of thinking, on fabricated apparent evidence incapable to withstand thorough investigation and on reluctance to any meaningful critical exposition.<ref name="Rohacek"/>|group=note}} towards undreamed-of expansion. Rohacek argues that although Kant's evolutionary philosophy (expressed in such evolutionary ideas such as, for example, cursory speculations on human evolution<ref>{{cite book

|author=Keith Ansell-Pearson et al.

|author=Keith Ansell-Pearson et al.

|title=Nietzsche and Modern German Thought

|title=Nietzsche and Modern German Thought

|isbn=0-521-80532-5

|isbn=0-521-80532-5

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|quote=...in 1798 the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in his work Anthropology that "An Orang-Utang or a chimpanzee may develop the organs which serve for walking, grasping objects, and speaking - in short, that he may evolve the structure of man, with an organ for the use of reason." ...Notice also that Kant does not merely refer to the physical change: "an organ for the use of reason" is a physical faculty. In this way Kant presaged evolutionary psychology by two centuries.}}</ref> and contribution to the Kant-Laplace [[nebular hypothesis]]) was in many aspects nothing pioneering as the general idea of Evolution is as old as philosophy itself{{#tag:ref|"Neither Kant nor Laplace, let alone Darwin were first who presented the idea of evolution of the universe and biological organisms. Long before Christ, around 600 B.C., in the era of [[Jeremiah]] and [[Fall of Jerusalem|destruction of Jerusalem]] by [[Babylonians]], [[Anaximander]] of Miletus claimed that an ''Apeiron'' (i.e. something indefinite, undefinable, eternal and inexhaustible) principle gives rise to all things. From this primordial matter rose by bursting the Earth, and then Sun, Moon and stars which are surrounding it in symmetrical distance. In his hypothesis, Anaximander lets more complex animals to be evolved from more simple ones, exactly as stated by later Darwinian evolutionary theory. Evolution of a man took in his view the longest process."<ref name="Rohacek"/>|group=note}}, yet his ideas gained unparallelled popularity and he achieved with his powerful spirit and ''categorical imperative'' to undermine the faith of many people or even of scholars who were not well-versed in Bible and its truths. Kant's ethic is based on so called ''autonomism'', i.e. on view that the ultimate goal of a man's moral behavior is the man itself. Kant for whom the God was only an idea {{#tag:ref|cf. [[Liberal Theology]]|group=note}} is perceived as a forerunner for later Darwin's evolutionary thought.<ref name="Rohacek">{{cite book

|quote=...in 1798 the German philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in his work Anthropology that "An Orang-Utang or a chimpanzee may develop the organs which serve for walking, grasping objects, and speaking - in short, that he may evolve the structure of man, with an organ for the use of reason." ...Notice also that Kant does not merely refer to the physical change: "an organ for the use of reason" is a physical faculty. In this way Kant presaged evolutionary psychology by two centuries.}}</ref> and contribution to the Kant-Laplace [[nebular hypothesis]]) was in many aspects nothing pioneering, as the general idea of Evolution is as old as philosophy itself{{#tag:ref|"Neither Kant nor Laplace, let alone Darwin were first who presented the idea of evolution of the universe and biological organisms. Long before Christ, around 600 B.C., in the era of [[Jeremiah]] and [[Fall of Jerusalem|destruction of Jerusalem]] by [[Babylonians]], [[Anaximander]] of Miletus claimed that an ''Apeiron'' (i.e. something indefinite, undefinable, eternal and inexhaustible) principle gives rise to all things. From this primordial matter rose by bursting the Earth, and then Sun, Moon and stars which are surrounding it in symmetrical distance. In his hypothesis, Anaximander lets more complex animals to be evolved from more simple ones, exactly as stated by later Darwinian evolutionary theory. Evolution of a man took in his view the longest process."<ref name="Rohacek"/>|group=note}}, yet his ideas gained unparallelled popularity and he achieved with his powerful spirit and ''categorical imperative'' to undermine the faith of many people or even of scholars who were not well-versed in the Bible and its truths. Kant's ethic is based on so-called ''autonomism'', i.e. the view that the ultimate goal of a man's moral behavior is the man itself. Kant, for whom God was only an idea,{{#tag:ref|cf. [[Liberal Theology]]|group=note}} is perceived as a forerunner for later Darwin's evolutionary thought.<ref name="Rohacek">{{cite book

|author=Jozef Rohacek

|author=Jozef Rohacek

|title=Evolucionizmus vo svetle pravdy alebo čo má každý vzdelaný človek vedieť o evolucionizme (Evolutionism in the light of truth or what should every literate person know about evolutionism)

|title=Evolucionizmus vo svetle pravdy alebo čo má každý vzdelaný človek vedieť o evolucionizme (Evolutionism in the light of truth or what should every literate person know about evolutionism)