the means of improving this life. The church, with its tyrannical power and its suppression of freedom and reason, was fiercely attacked. Although the representatives of the Enlightenment saw the church as the main force that had enslaved the people's mind in the past, they did not entirely renounce religion. They chose a form of deism, accepting the existence of God, but rejecting the dogmas and the rituals promoted by Christian theology. It appears that this very last sentence implies a noteworthy idea: by repelling the old, pre-conceived truths, the Enlightenment thinkers formulated new truths that were
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