In his campaign for greater toleration, French Huguenot refugee Pierre Bayle (1647-1706) published his Historical and Critical Dictionary (1697) , which
A) strove to highlight Protestantism's superiority to Catholicism and the injustice of its suppression in France.
B) included an analysis of the non-Christian philosophies of Plato and Aristotle so as to reveal superior aspects of their theories.
C) listed the errors and delusions of an entire host of writers on religion in an effort to show that religions must be held accountable to reason.
D) was an attempt to offer clear definitions of commonly used religious terms that Bayle felt were too often misunderstood, a contributing factor to religious intolerance.
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