INDY500
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Inversely proportionate to the influence religion has had on any of those aspects you mentioned. If not for the Enlightenment, we'd still be toiling in the mud that was the religiously centered middle ages.
Those markers I mentioned were progressing well before the Enlightenment. Common Law, the Reformation (although things got a little bloody after that), advances in astronomy and mathematics, the founding of universities throughout Europe, Colonialism in America and the Renaissance just to name but a few. But notice:
1) It was Western Civilization that gave rise to the Enlightenment,
2) Compare the Enlightenment Age American Revolution which was informed by the writings of John Locke and the Great Awakening and thusly religion and the importance of faith was an animating force against the Jean-Jacques Rousseau informed French Revolution -- the godless antithesis to the founding of the United States.
One had the Liberty Bell, the other the guillotine. Only one produced a lasting constitution and 235 years of peaceful transfers of power.
Good to see you back, Indy.
Thank you.