What Would an Eighteenth-Century Deist Most Likely Have Done

question 34

Multiple Choice

What would an eighteenth-century deist most likely have done?

• A) constructed a country home in the Palladian style
• B) practiced spiritual exercises to achieve religious insight
• C) questioned the right of humans to overthrow governments
• D) doubted the revelations of the Christian Bible

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