But toleration may be viewed in a much stronger light. There would be an uproar. Mind thine own concerns. If he believes not as thou believest, it is a proof that thou believest not as he believeth, and there is no earthly power can determine between you. Let us bestow a few thoughts on this subject.
All religions are in their nature mild and benign, and united with principles of morality.
They could not have made proselytes at first, by professing anything that was vicious, cruel, persecuting or immoral. It proceeds from the connection which Mr. Burke recommends. By engendering the church with the state, a sort of mule-animal, capable only of destroying, and not of breeding up, is produced, called, The Church established by Law . It is a stranger, even from its birth to any parent mother on which it is begotten, and whom in time it kicks out and destroys. The Inquisition in Spain does not proceed from the religion originally professed, but from this mule-animal, engendered between the church and the state.