“If the principles on which the present civil war is carried on by the American colonies, against the British arms, were universally adopted and practiced upon by mankind, they would turn a vale of tears, into a paradise of God: whereas opposite principles, and a conduct founded upon them, has filled the world with blood and slaughter, with rapine and violence, with cruelty and injustices, with wretchedness, poverty, horror, desolation, and despair: We cannot therefore doubt, that the cause of liberty, united with that of truth & righteousness, is the cause of God.”
-Source: Abraham Keteltas, God Arising and Pleading His People’s Cause, 1777
A historian would most likely use this passage to illustrate which of the following?
Choose 1
Choose 1

(Choice A)
A
how colonists responded to the establishment of new taxes by British Parliament

(Choice B)
B
how religious tolerance spread throughout colonial governments

(Choice C)
C
how religion strengthened colonists’ view that they were blessed with liberty

(Choice D)
D
how the ideals of the Enlightenment influenced the American Revolution