While some praised Deschner's writings as a contribution to the Enlightenment as important as the works of Pierre Bayle, Claude Helvétius, Voltaire and Heinrich Heine, others condemned his Christianity's Criminal History as "criminalisation of Christianity".
The reactions to this book series have been mixed. While some praised Deschner's writings as a contribution to the Enlightenment as important as the works of Pierre Bayle, Claude Helvétius, Voltaire and Heinrich Heine, others condemned his Christianity's Criminal History as "criminalisation of Christianity".