O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
There is nothing which any way pertaineth to the worship of God left to the determination of human laws.
I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
One ought to look a good deal at oneself before thinking of condemning others.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.
But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.
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