Carroll on religion in the Globe

Here's James Carroll's latest op-ed in the Boston Globe.  His views are not mine but, if you are interested . . .   His in-a-nutshell aim is to push back on the Romney-esque idea that religion and political freedom are connected.  He writes, for example:

The politics of human rights, like the idea of individual freedom, were born not in religion but in the Enlightenment struggle against it.

This is not quite right, of course.  But read it for yourself.