As was said at the outset of this chapter, the vice in being too sure for our purposes is the deposition to impose your beliefs and your forms of religious conduct on others. That attitude is the enemy of religious freedom. It is the remembered and hated form of oppression against which the First Amendment was drawn.

Marvin Frankel
Marvin E. Frankel (1920-2002) American lawyer, judge, legal scholar
Faith and Freedom: Religious Liberty in America (1994)

 
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