The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as injurious to otehrs. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. It is error alone which needs the support of government.
Truth can stand by itself.
To produce uniformity. No more than of face and stature. That these profess probably a thousand different systems of religion. That ours is but one of that thousand. That if there be but one right, and ours that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth.