Bush commutes Libby sentence

[Jester]

I would claim the opposite, it was because of the productivity afforded by an ordered and moral society that enabled people to have time to focus on enlightenment.

This is a rather bold claim. You would not only have to show that there was order, morality and productivity that preceded enlightenment (a dubious claim, as the centuries that preceded the enlightenment were wracked by social and political turmoil), but that religion caused the first two, which caused the third, which caused enlightenment. That would be quite the historical project.

I believe that political and economic developments laid the groundwork for the enlightenment, and that, at least in Britain, the "order" and "morality" of the Cromwells, or of the Stuarts, was precisely what enlightened thinkers were rebelling against.

-Jester