In the 1760s in the French city of Toulouse, a young Protestant named Marc-Antoine Calas died.His father was then found guilty of murder and brutally executed, following rumors he wanted to keep his son from becoming a Catholic.What does this episode reveal about the time period?
A) Although on the whole brutal religious violence had become more rare, established religions could still punish so-called heretics like they had in the past.
B) Because established religions were greatly threatened by the spread of deism and in danger of dissolving, they often took desperate measures.
C) New religious revival movements were able to replace established religions of the time through their use of fear and violence.
D) Religious violence had become a part of daily life with the founding of Protestant religions in the eighteenth century.
E) Catholics were the most persecuted religious revivalist group because their religion had been founded on the basis of pietism.
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