Select the correct answerread this excerpt from thomas paine's famous essay "the crisis number onei have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever beento military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have seerstandevery decent method which wisdom could invent. neither have so much of the infidelimgovernment of the world, and given us up to the care of devils, and as i do not, i cannotheaven for against us a common murderer, a highwayman or a househaawhatthegowhich sentence best describes paine's claim in the excerpt? agod would not take sides between the british and the american colorsb. it was necessary to save americans because god did not support military destructionc. it was necessary for america to fight the british to defend their religious valuesd. god would defend the american colonists fight because their cause was orghee. it was necessary for americans to save themselves and not wait for qed to themalghts reserved