"And here without anger or resentment I bid you farewell.  Sincerely wishing, that as men and christians, ye may always fully and uninterruptedly enjoy every civil and religious right; and be, in your turn,  the means of securing it to others; but that the example which ye have unwisely set, of mingling religion with politics, may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of AMERICA."

                                                                                         --Thomas Paine

                                                                                             "Common Sense" (italics and emphasis in the original)