text: This statement is from an early church pioneer opposed to a religion of force. 
  The first step of apostasy is to get up a creed, telling us what we shall believe. The second is to make that creed a test of fellowship. The third is to try members by that creed. The fourth is to denounce as heretics those who do not believe that creed. And, fifth, to commit persecution against such.
  
  – J.N. Loughborough, 1861