How dare you think divergently!

Freethinking seems to be desirable because the human being is seen as an independently thinking being. However, well known, freethinking should not taken for granted: ideological indoctrination, manipulation and propaganda, inter alia, are versatile tools rulers and, in consequence, regularly repeated phenomena. One of most drastic intellectual turning points history occurred seventeenth eighteenth centuries, when incontestable religious world view European civilization changed along with early modern science Age Enlightenment. Although religion do have thought opposed, period question includes instances complex delicate phenomena, which this article termed purism socio-intellectual control. The discussion how five thinkers (Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Wolff, Kant) operated a restrictive politico-religio-theological framework they manifest deviance.