What approach did the philosophes take to organized religion? Explain their rationale. Finally, discuss how the ideas of deism resolved some of their religious objections.
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
1. The philosophes' hostility to the Catholic Church and its educational institutions
2. Enlightenment calls for natural law and human progress rather than divine law
3. The philosophes' challenge to the influence of religious institutions on the state
4. Deism as a reconciliation of the divine and the secular in which nature informs truths also revealed by theology
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