Esoterics and conspiracy theories where pretty strong before british (and elsewhere) decline in church authority. It isn't the end of an era in the utopian sen

Esoterics and conspiracy theories where pretty strong before british (and elsewhere) decline in church authority. It isn't the end of an era in the utopian sense, from now on science and reason. But the era of the church as "1st estate of the realm," the unchallengeable political power & moral authority, ended.