Religious Laws on Superphysics

Religion in General

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Amidst several degrees of darkness, we can judge those which are the least thick.

Among precipices, we can judge those which are which are the least deep.

Likewise, we may search among false religions for those that are most conformable to the welfare of society; for those which, though they have not the effect of leading men to the felicity of another life, may contribute most to their happiness in this.

Catholicism is Best for a Monarchy, and the Protestant is Best for a Republic

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A religion that is successfully adopted in a state is one that matches the plan of its government. This is because those who will follow it only know the current form for government.

The Laws of Perfection in Religion

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HUMAN laws are made to direct the will. These should give precepts, not counsels.

Religion is made to influence the heart. It should give many counsels and few precepts. It gives rules:

Mortal Sins

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IT appears from a passage of the books of the pontiffs, quoted by Cicero*, that they had amongst the Romans unpardonable crimes.

it is on this that Zozymus founds the narration so proper to blacken the motives of Constantine’s conversion; and Julian, that bitter raillery on this conversion in his Cæsars.

How the Laws of Religion correct the Inconveniencies of a political Constitution

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ON the other hand, religion may support a state, when the laws themselves are incapable of doing it.

Thus, when a kingdom is frequently agitated by civil wars, religion may do much, by obliging one part of the state to remain always quiet. Among the Greeks, the Eleans, as priests of Apollo, lived always in peace.

Religious Festivals

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WHEN religion appoints a cessation from labour, it ought to have a greater regard to the necessities of mankind, than to the grandeur of the being it designs to honour.