What Is Michel De Montaigne's View Of Religion

Michel de' Montaigne was a french writer of the renaissance period, many people of Montaigne's day viewed social customs and religious practices as absolutes and viewed any deviation from them as heretical. Religious leaders of the Renaissance emphasized that choosing the wrong religion meant certain damnation. Most commoners who could not read or write looked to their religious leaders for the "truth". In a time where most Europeans believed in religious and cultural absolutes, Montaigne praised the barbaric people who lived in primitive societies. In Montaigne's view, the definition of barbarism was "whatever differs from our own customs", He believed that it was his own society that was savage and not the "barbaric" people. By drawing a