When any state, as such, shall not acknowledge the existence of God as a moral governor of the world … when it shall abolish the Christian religion by a regular decree; when it shall persecute … all its ministers … with a cold, unrelenting, steady cruelty … when it shall generally shut up, or pull down, churches; when the few buildings which remain of this kind shall be opened only for the purpose of making a profane apotheosis of monsters, whose vices and crimes have no parallel amongst men, and whom all other men consider as objects of general detestation … when, in … mockery of all religion, they institute impious, blasphemous, indecent, theatrick rites, in honour of their vitiated, perverted reason, and erect altars to the personification of their own corrupted and bloody republick; when schools and seminaries are founded at publick expense to poison mankind … with the horrible maxims of this impiety; when wearied out with incessant martyrdom, and the cries of a people hungering and thirsting for religion, they permit it only as a tolerated evil … I call this atheism by establishment.

Unhappy Asia, do you call it? It is the unhappiness of Europe over which I mourn.