atheist or agnostic king during the reformation

Those two conceptions aren't exclusive, you know. Just try reading some Aquinas.

I know.
However, upholding a purely Deistic view of God as just the First Cause was seriously problematic with regard to the dominant religious views.
Even the Aquinas, who certainly did NOT had such views, had his share of trouble (OK, I know that it was far more complicated than that).
 
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