“Divine religion … does not prod men with an iron rod; it guides them with bands of love. It draws no avenging sword, dispenses no temporal goods, assumes no right to any earthly possessions, and claims no external power over the mind. Its weapons are reason and persuasion; its strength is the divine power of truth.”

—  Moses Mendelssohn

Source: Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783), p. 73

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