First, my excessive precision may have been rather myopic.
Nonetheless, Moldbug does, in fact, hold that the Enlightenment (a nebulous historical concept) was a manifestation of a particular strain of Protestantism.
If you do have the time, here is a relevant Moldbug article:
Thanks for that. I'm sure Moldbug can write clearly and concisely, and one day he will. Apparently he spent the previous epic post conclusively proving a hypothesis (that Richard Dawkins is the kind of atheist who is a cultural Christian) that Dawkins has stated outright repeatedly. Well done.
It is not clear from the first thousand words if he comes up with evidence of actual ideological descent, as compared to the hypothesis of exploration of a similar attitudinal conceptspace: being able to say "see? that's just like Calvin! A bit!" is not actu...
I am not sure whether this has been posted here before but I came across this: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/LessWrong
What do you think about RationalWiki in general, and their opinion regarding LW?