Full Idea
Religion and legislation ...excite a just suspicion against themselves, and cannot claim that unfeigned respect that reason grants only to that which has been able to withstand free and public examination.
Gist of Idea
Religion and legislation can only be respected if they accept free and public examination
Source
Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason [1781], A Pref xi n)
Book Reference
Kant,Immanuel: 'Critique of Pure Reason', ed/tr. Guyer,P /Wood,A W [CUO 1998], p.100
A Reaction
A wonderful statement of a core principle of the liberal enlightenment. I can't really relate to anyone who would reject this idea (in general). Legislation might have special circumstances (such as wartime).