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Quote from Tertullian,

"It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions. One man’s religion neither harms nor helps another man. It is assuredly no part of religion to compel religion, to which free will and not force should lead us."



By:

Tertullian (more quotes by Tertullian or books by/about Tertullian)


(160?-230? A.D) Carthaginian “Father of Latin theology”

Date:

c. 200 A.D.

Categories:

Compulsion, Conscience, Conviction, Individual Rights, Nature, Religion

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