John Murray was the first that I am aware of although it may have come from someone else at an earlier time.
The theory of religious tolerance takes its start from the statement, considered to be axiomatic, that error has no rights, that only the truth has rights—and exclusive rights-JOHN COURTNEY MURRAY, S.J.
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