Nordic is correct.
Here is who comes up if you google "father of modern philosophy".
The whole basis of Cartesian philosophy is the systematic doubting of everything.
now was he just some innocent person trying to arrive at truth.... and it is just pure coincidence that this kind of thing has anti-religious implications?
no, it is naive to think that. the philosophers were at war with the Church.
look at the big names in Western philosophy since Descartes- David Hume (widely considered to be some sort of crypto-atheist), Voltaire (enemy of religion), Karl Marx (enemy of religion), Nietzsche (enemy of religion).
I would argue the most influential philosopher of the twentieth century is Foucault (besides Lenin, I'm not counting Lenin).
Foucault was some sort of homo degenerate who I assume was not particularly religious. Arguably the two most famous philosophers of the twentieth century are Jean-Paul Sartre and Bertrand Russell. Sartre held that God doesn't exist, life has no inherent meaning and so we have to invent meaning (that's what his form of existentialism boils down to). Bertrand Russell was a preacher of atheism and he was basically the twentieth century version of Richard Dawkins as well as a "I hecking LOVE science" guy (Russell believed science would/should replace religion).
There are exceptions like Alvin Plantinga, who is a famous modern Christian philosopher but generally speaking modern Western philosophy is very anti-religion.
Then if you go to pre-modern Western philosophy it's people mixing Catholicism with Aristotle. Then earlier it's Plato and Socrates and them. None of these are particularly useful for a Muslim. And most modern Western philosophy is degenerate, atheistic garbage. If I'm not mistaken, the most cited philosopher today if not ever is Foucault
this is the most cited philosopher and the man was a degenerate pervert who died of AIDS.
now maybe some are conservative types who sneer at modern philosophy but think highly of ancient Greek philosophy. I am telling you as someone who read the Republic- Plato was a Communist.
if you read Plato's Republic- he proposed the abolition of the family. women should be "held in common" or however you want to put it. children should be taken from the mother and raised by the state. they should not be raised by their parents because the parents might infect the children with their "superstitions". the child must be raised by the state and taught the ideology that the state wants them to be taught. if you actually read and study Plato's Republic, he is proposing a nightmare dystopian proto-Communistic dictatorship. I think he even proposed forcing vegetarianism on the population to make them more docile- only the elites would be allowed meat.
