Reason Against Faith

The Thirty Years' War turned Europe upside down. The old continent emerged from it poorer by a few million inhabitants, but at the same time entered the Age of "Reason". And it was this moment that definitively tipped the balance of power between Christianity and Islam. This was fully demonstrated in the conflict between the Holy League, led by the Habsburg "Austrians", and the Ottoman Empire between 1683 and 1699. This Great Turkish War definitively averted the threat of expansive Islam, as the unsuccessful containment of Allah's holy warriors in the Balkans turned into a pushback. First from Vienna, then from Buda and Pest, all the way to Belgrade. Christian reason, relying on itself, began to dominate over faith in the god proclaimed by an Arab merchant during his meditations in the desert near Mecca.