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The philosophes of the Enlightenment used criticism of myth as a vehicle for veiled criticisms of the Bible and the church.

According to Bruce Lincoln, the philosophes " made irrationality the hallmark of myth and constituted philosophy — rather than the Christian kerygma — as the antidote for mythic discourse.

By implication, Christianity could appear as a more recent, powerful, and dangerous instance of irrational myth ".