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This was also a major for the Greek mind who saw the senses as giving us false knowledge and illusions. Reason on the other hand told them that the stick was straight but appeared bent because of the doubt of our senses. The conclusion was that reason for the Greek philosopher gives us the truth but the senses may mislead us. Senses were later identified with superstitions in the time of the Romans writers and a further to the confusion when sense, superstition were identified with religion during the Enlightenment Period. This idea was dug up during The Enlightenment to became one of the driving forces to attack the spiritual Western Tradition and place a wedge between science and religion as we have it today