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Church Intolerance

Altruism has been never known nor is it in
its nature to prompt men to commit crimes.
All it stands chargeable with is the taking away
one of three checks which by which the four restraints which men have to keep men
are restrained from crimes hurting one another doing wrong: the
force of the political notions religious, political, the moral or popular
or moral sanctions and that of natural benevolence. +
+ See Introd. to the principles
or morals and legislation
[The efficacy of The respective share which each of
these several causes these several causes have
each respectively of them in the production of their joint efficacy the joint
effect is not easy to distinguish.] of the
heaviest severest as well as extensive mischiefs
to which the Christian world has all hitherto
along been subjected, Religion stands the undisputed
cause. To attribute them to not to Religion
but to Superstition is a poor artifice.
To change the word and put Superstition upon these
occasions instead of Religion is a poor artifice.
Crusades, wars foreign and intestine, and unresisted
persecutions. To change the word and
To this hideous mass
that the mischief of all other private crimes
put together in the same
interval would bear no
proportion.
put Superstition upon these occasions is a poor
artifice. It is as if a Physician, in order to
prove that Mercury the innocence of mercury never did any harm were
to ins charge all its bad effects upon Quicksilver.
The true answer is, that the mischief flowing
from

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	005	Main Headings	church of englandism
Folio number	071	Info in main headings field	church
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
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Notes public		ID Number	2488
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