The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
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Who does not see that the same authority which can establish Christianity, in exclusion of all other religions, may establish with the same ease any particular sect of Christians, in exclusion of all other sects
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It is forbidden to decry other sects the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
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All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.
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It is forbidden to decry other sects; the true believer gives honour to whatever in them is worthy of honour.
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Sects, sects, sects... Is that all you monks think about?
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All sects are different, because they come from men morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.
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There have been no sects in the christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from ...
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