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Damn right.
It's a bit of a long read, but anyone interested in how Enlightenment ideas only make sense in the context of Europe's Christian roots should read this book by Larry "Based" Siedentop.
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>If "the masses" wanted to be willing tools of Roman rulers, then this desire stemmed from indoctrination and ignorance rather than instinct.
Even instinct is indoctrination.
>perhaps because it relied so much on overt tyranny rather than subtle manipulation via religion.
The Romans did have pagan religions that were state-reinforcing, though.
>Christianity, which was also arguably inspired by Stoic philosophy
I'd say Platonism, but, in certain ascetic senses, yes.
>Peter Gay's history of the Enlightenment as the reception of pagan values in the west
Oh, that's a quite silly claim. The Pagan gods were not even remotely humanists, and just because the Enlightenment fostered skepticism of religion, it does not follow from that that it wasn't informed by contiguous Christian values.