The moderator said:  
>[Our discussion of Stark has taken us pretty far from the History of   
>Economics, broadly defined. I trust we can self-censor and keep our   
>remarks within the confines of the HES list guidelines.  You are always   
>free to directly email someone if you wish to continue the conversation. HB]  
  
Our own history as a discipline associates us both causally and   
consequentially with the much-maligned Enlightenment, the greatest of whose   
representatives would certainly have had no truck with an attempt to   
associate the victory of reason - as opposed to its hobbling and maiming -   
with any religion at all.  A pox, as they say, on them all! Ecrasez L'Infame!  
  
Kevin Quinn