(November 13, 2020 at 8:25 pm)Sal Wrote: (bold mine)
Ask a historian what he thinks, rest is bullshit. Try again.
I don't have personal access to any historians. Wikipedia, for whatever that's worth, does seem to trace the origins of the idea from Thomas Jefferson, back to John Locke, and back to the Protestant Reformation, with a few minor religious precursors before that.