Enlightenment reformers believed that the leaders of most rigidly organized religious groups had as their main purpose
A) obtaining money from unsuspecting people.
B) convincing good people that they were filled with sin because of the original sin of Adam and Eve.
C) preventing people from listening to what reformers had to say.
D) frightening people into following established church laws.
E) hiding the truth − that people could reason out what they believed for themselves, without help from church authorities.
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