If ... we admit a divinity, why not divine worship? and if worship, why not religion to teach this worship? and if a religion, why not the Christian, if a better cannot be assigned, and it be already established by the laws of our country, and handed down to us from our forefathers?
ATTRIBUTION:
George Berkeley (1685–1753), Irish bishop, philosopher. Crito, in “Alciphron: or the Minute Philosopher,” dial. 5, sect. 2, p. 176, The Works of George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne, eds. A. Luce and T. Jessop, London, Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd. (1948-1957).
