Read the excerpt then answer the question: "Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom"

That all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and therefore are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, who being Lord, both of body and mind yet chose not to propagate it by coercions on either, as was in his Almighty power to do,

Rewrite this excerpt from Thomas Jefferson's "Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom" in your own words in a more contemporary style.