Catholic polemics and the Enlightenment

Catholic apologists sometime allege that the Protestant movement is responsible for the Enlightenment and secularization. Here's a discussion in which it's the other way around: Counter-Reformation polemics were a catalyst for the Enlightenment and secularization:

https://rationalityofaith.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/how-the-17th-c-french-catholic-use-of-pyrrhonian-scepticism-against-calvinism-created-the-french-enlightenment-skeptics/

https://rationalityofaith.wordpress.com/2016/10/30/from-attacking-jansenist-miracles-to-naturalistic-disenchantment-of-history/