The Reformation doesn't happen until well over a thousand years later, and the Eastern Orthodox church is just as panoplied and so visual that it gave us the word "icon". I think the original wording is better.
Chomsky has written about how there were quite a few remarkably literate working-class journals in the 19th century. Unfortunately I don't have a link to where he said that.
Hold on, what evidence do you have that Lomborg ever held that first position? I've run into interviews with him since forever and remember his position has having been very consistent: climate change is real but not an existential threat and we should be more rational in prioritizing our responses to it. Or something like that.