Various religious groups have been the dominant social and political organizations for large swaths of the world, across large time periods. This is true of Ch

Various religious groups have been the dominant social and political organizations for large swaths of the world, across large time periods. This is true of Christianity but also Islam and other religions. As a result, many achievements are credited to religious individuals or religious cultures. But is this anything more than a coincidence? It seems obvious to me that culture dominated by religion will produce religiously-motivated social institutions, and that historically-notable men and women will themselves be religious.