That it professes contempt towards its object; and whilst it treats all religion with scorn, is not so much as neutral about the modes: it unites the opposite evils of intolerance and of indifference.
Burke discusses the dangers of a system that shows contempt for religion and promotes both intolerance and indifference.
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I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.
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