...for a class on
ante-bellum American Thought and Culture. Part of an ordination speech delivered in 1819, and addressing the matter of Reason in religion, it seems he had the character of today's Religious Right pretty much pegged, 200 years beforehand.
I offer it up for your perusal:
. An enemy to every religion, if asked to describe a Christian, would, with some show of reason, depict him as an idolater of his own distinguishing opinions, covered with badges of party, shutting his eyes on the virtues, and his ears on the arguments, of his opponents, arrogating all excellence to his own sect and all saving power to his own creed, sheltering under the name of pious zeal the love of domination, the conceit of infallibility, and the spirit of intolerance, and trampling on men's rights under the pretence of saving their souls.the complete text may be found at:
http://www.americanunitarian.org/unitarianchristianity.htm