“For
see that you do not give a further ground for the charge of
irreligion, by taking away religious liberty, and forbidding free
choice of deity, so that I may no longer worship according to my
inclination, but am compelled to worship against it. Not even a human
being would care to have unwilling homage rendered him; and so the
very Egyptians have been permitted the legal use of their ridiculous
superstition, liberty to make gods of birds and beasts, nay, to
condemn to death anyone who kills a god of their sort.” Tertullian,
Apology, 24, ANF 3:39
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