... Calvinism, church and religion was for the exceptional, those of high class with worthier education. Also threatening the Enlightenment were the doctrines of Arminians, preaching that individual free will, not divine decree, was what determined a person's eternal fate, which the Puritans began to intermittently turn towards. The period of Enlightenment accentuated knowledge through human logic and reason, basing religion on the ... ...

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