Diderot's early works Les Pensées Philosophiques (Philosophical Thoughts - 1746) and Promenade du Sceptique (The Sceptic Walk 1747) already revealed his concern for the question of religion albeit from a deist rather than an atheist stance. Diderot questions Christianity's integrity. His work was condemned by the parliament in Paris and was ordered to be burned. It was in Lettre sur les Aveugles (Letter on the Blind) that Diderot brought up the question of the existence of God and led to his subsequent imprisonment in 1749 for three months for his opinions - seemingly incompatible with conventional morality of the day.
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