How did the Enlightenment evaluate the role of religion in public life?

People insisted on the importance of reason rather than revelation. However, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy states: "Though the Enlightenment is sometimes represented as the enemy of religion, it is more accurate to see it as critically directed against various features of religion, such as superstition, enthusiasm, fanaticism and supernaturalism." In fact, deism developed during the Enlightenment, which is the belief that there is logically a supreme being, but it does not interfere with creation. A deist would not believe in miracles or have faith in scripture. Despite this, atheism did emerge in this time, mostly in French Enlightenment thinkers. Atheism is the rejection of any spiritual deity. As a result of all of these new philosophies, many people started to change their beliefs and turned to democracy and freedom of religion.