Good post! I think it's important to remember that naturalism has political and social consequences. Would a society drenched in naturalism be healthy and conservative or dysfunctional and leftist? Individuals may be able to fit any of those categories but I expect a society in which God is so severed from our lives would become extremely self-serving and materialistic. Spiritual voids tend to be filled by the state.
Amen! puroresu -- I couldn't agree with you more: History gives evidence of your observation in the most presuasive way. Thank you oh so much for writing!
I'd be really curious to see a list of individual rights that have consistently been protected by theocracies.