These men and others like them disbelieved that doctrine established freedom, and they undid the work of orthodox Christianity, they swept away that appalling edifice of intolerance, tyranny, cruelty, which believers in Christ built up to perpetuate their belief.
Morley reflects on the impact of certain thinkers on the evolution of Christian doctrine and its implications for freedom.
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