The answer is “D” I’m pretty sure.
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I could be wrong but wouldn't it be all of the sentences suggested?
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Paine's opinion is that God will not allow the colonists to be conquered because they have tried so hard to avoid war.
Explanation:
"(...)<u>my secret opinion</u> has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war(...)"
That's the key opinion of the excerpt from Thomas Paine's essay. The rest of the phrases and sentences are arguments or secondary key points that derivates from that principal statement: As we have sought to avoid the calamities of war, God Almighty won't give us destruction.
