The enlightenment was a mistake?

The more research I do, the more I realize that the source of all of the modern world's problems was the age of enlightenment. That's what introduced the destructive concepts of tolerance, egalitarianism, and secularism (the most evil ideas to ever exist). Yet today this age is hailed as the greatest thing since sliced bread, instead of the root of evil.

What the hell happened?

>The more shitty alt-right blogpost with no citations I read, the more I realize that the source of all of the modern world's problems was the age of enlightenment.
fixed that for you

Daily reminder that all the liberals you hate are Christians who dropped the god part

You're absolutely right. It's billed as being classical in nature, when in reality the "enlightenment" eschews all traditional values associated with the actual classical age and forms the core of what would become modernism and devolve into post-modernism. Absolutely shameful. It took me a long time to figure out that the period names weren't designed for accuracy, but for propaganda purposes:
>Enlightenmnet=good! free thinkers! less oppressions!
>Dark Ages=a romantic period where people fondly look back at illiterate religious people,laugh at them
>Classical Antiquity= they were almost progressive,just ignore all the details that prove otherwise

>Christianity is humanism
Humanism arose as something antithetical to the Christian ethos of it's day. Hence the controversies to begin with, and the revolutions, and the changes of power.

>enlightenment occurs
>the modern worlds' longest-lasting modern governments are founded on its principles
>those Europeans who embrace it conquer the entire world in less than a century
>the ones which reject it fall into obscurity or collapse entirely
Yeah definitely it was a mistake

This might sound marxist to say, but it was legitimately the industrial revolution that secured all that. Enlightenment principles weren't at play in most of Europe until the 20th century, after Europe had conquered the entire world. After those principles were put into practice and the old empires dissolved, Europe fragmented from less than a dozen major powers into dozens of countries and decolonized. Now they're client states of the only country which can honestly say that it put those ideals into practice to any effect, but post-modernism is about to kick in and rebalance that.

WRONG WRONG WRONG
Things were going pretty great until women got more power in society. The 1920-30s were the last good years.

People will try to deny this. They’ll say there’s other factors or that it’s too simple of an explanation. But it’s the truth, everything started getting worse for the West once women gained power

that's completely false. Europe was exceptional long before the enlightenment occurred, and would have dominated the globe regardless. Portugal was a world-spanning colonial power in the late 1400's, and the reason England could dominate places like India was the industrial revolution, not their enlightenment philosophy.

>Enlightenment principles weren't at play in most of Europe until the 20th century
Not true. They just weren't necessarily interpreted the same way we do now. Also keep in mind enlightenment values weren't necessarily monolithic. Some enlightenment thinkers might have valued democracy, while other preferred more authoritarian approach. The naturalism of the day was highly (by our standards) racist, and since science is a arge component of enlightenment ethos it's natural they'd develop the "scientific racism" which people love to complain about.