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07 Feb 08
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one of the major developments of the Enlightenment was an increasingly secular approach to morality
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Enlightened rational scrutiny could assist in religious reform without destroying faith.
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to challenge forms of belief based on an unthinking acceptance of tradition and authority.
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empiricism
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others were keen to embrace a belief in God apparently grounded in empiricism.
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Voltaire
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‘argument from design’
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Deist views were expressed by those who questioned conventional Christianity and who believed in a universal rather than a sectarian God.
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deism, a particular religious belief which holds that God designed and created the world, but so effectively that there would be no further need for his intervention.
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Natural religion was a form of religious belief founded on the observation of nature rather than on revelation or scriptural authority.
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