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Church Intolerance — Argumt answers
Intolerance Church

Ordo
1. Too expensive
2. Needless
3. Groundless.

The principle would
if pursued with
any degree of steadiness
or consistency
is absolutely incompatible
with
the discussion of
any question on
religion, politics,
or morality, including
the art
legislation as
a branch of it.

It is altogether
incompatible with
the liberty of
the press

This is an object
not to which would
not be attempted
without punishment

The case supposed
punishment
to expedients
of a coercive
nature in the
shape of punishment
or otherwise
to be employ'd the means
for compassing
the end.

Punishment it
will be found
as applied to this
purpose, punishment
or whatever
else has the afflictive
effect of punishment
will
will be found at
once Groundless,
needless & not only too expensive
but needless
and even groundless.

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Suppression
of Relig. tenets
adverse to morality
III Too expensive.

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1. There would be
no end of punishing
if all religious opinions were
punishable which
were susceptible of
inferences adverse
to morality.

2. Those adopted
by the Church
are at least as
obnoxious to this
imputation as any
other.

3. The Church
while she has fixed
many tenets that
have no influence
has left others open
that have the
most important
influence.

Duration and measure
of future punishments

Scale of future punishments
& rewards.

4. Laws authorising
the punishment suppression of
Religious tenets on
this pretence by
ex post facto punishment
authorize
the decision of all questions
of morality in
the ex post facto mode

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5. Two points would
be to be decided in
every instance — 1.
— That the tenet in
question was susceptible
of a certain
inference relative
to morality — that
the pr opinion in
question relative to
morality was of a
pernicious nature

Atonement
Predestination
Damnation of
unbelievers.
Necessity of Faith.

6. No drawing the
line — Opinions
relative to legislation
are all relative to
morality. The most
important points of
morality are those
drawn by legislation
to give its sanction
to.

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IV Needless.
I. Groundless.

Such tenets opinions produce
no mischief.
What
harm would it
do suppose a
man were to set
about proving
the innocence
of Theft, Robbery
unprovoked personal
violence
unjustifiable
Homicide, Incendiarism
& the
like Calumny
Forgery

IV Needless.

No poison of
which these opinion
can circulate,
but what opinion
alone is capable
of furnishing
a most effectual
antidote — Opinion
is the spear of
Telephus — of The
wounds it inflicts
it and it alone
is equal to the
cure.

III Too expensive

By such a proscription

Groundless.

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In the science
of morality as
in every other
by such a proscription
Error
or

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or Imposture may,
that alone can,
and that must
be a gainer.

To proscribe [the
publication of] false error
notions in religion
or morality, is
to proscribe the
publication of
true truth. For who
would publish his
new notions to the world
at the risk of their
being found punished
for them at
the pleasure of a
man whose opinion
it was impossible
for him to foresee

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	053	Info in main headings field	church intolerance argumts answered
Image	001	Titles	ordo / suppression of relig. tracts adverse to morality too expensive / groundless / needless / too expensive
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