It postulated that the removal of the artificial obstacles from the path of Reason - including, in a prominent place, the kind of obstacles for the erection of which the priestly arsenal of obscurantism and intolerance was said to be directly responsible - would bring about an ideally rewarding social order, since the autonomously self-determing individuals could from then on follow unhindered, as eminently commendable dictates of their own intellectual and moral faculties, "What Reason demands", instead of submitting to false prophets and tyrannical rulers.

Я, конечно. люблю английский, и переводить тоже люблю. Но не ТАКОЕ, да еще и на две страницы.