Agreed. You could pick a historical thinker at random and spin the same article making leaps into the future. Being self-identified as religious and influenced

Agreed. You could pick a historical thinker at random and spin the same article making leaps into the future. Being self-identified as religious and influenced by God was the norm even well into Enlightenment. This sort of retrospective coronation is the positive version of "judging people without regard for their historical context." You could also pick any historical figure and say how their pro-slavery and anti-feminist thinking "helped unlocked the secrets of ____." But no one would praise or click that article on the face of it.