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Is it, then, the idea of Christianity itself, that it ought to have establishments, that it ought to have laws against Dissenters, but the breach of which laws is to be connived at?
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Edmund Burke
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Burke questions whether Christianity should require legal establishments against Dissenters, which are then ignored.
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