 | Michael Martin - Religion - 2006
...atheists were traitors, but rather because atheists could not be trusted to uphold oaths and promises. "Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds...away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all."6 Locke focused on the perceived untrustworthiness of atheists in part because he believed that... | |
 | John Witte - Law - 2006 - 513 pages
...place in this community. Moreover, "those are not at all tolerated who deny the being of a God" — for "promises, covenants, and oaths which are the bonds...human society, can have no hold upon an atheist." Locke strengthened these qualifications even more in his theological writings — arguing in his volumes... | |
 | Mark Goldie, Robert Wokler - History - 2006 - 944 pages
...noted earlier, thought Catholics must be excluded. He also thought atheists were intolerable, because 'promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds...of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist' (Locke 1983, p. 51). Bayle, by contrast, shockingly did not exclude atheists. There are, he said, virtuous... | |
 | Christian Walter - Law - 2006 - 712 pages
...verweigert1 12. Die Loya105 Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, aaO (Anm.95), 64 ff. 106 »[...], those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an... | |
 | John Marshall - History - 2006 - 700 pages
...words in the English translation - that 'promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of humane society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, tho but even in thought, dissolves all' - or, in a less flowing and more literal translation: 'neither... | |
 | Robert B. Louden Professor of Philosophy University of Southern Maine - Philosophy - 2007 - 340 pages
...does not seem especially tolerant by contemporary standards. "Those are not to be tolerated at all who deny the being of a God. Promises, covenants,...of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all." Atheists are untrustworthy and hence subversive of the social order; to tolerate them would be political... | |
 | Geoffrey M. Vaughan - Philosophy - 2007 - 188 pages
...Hobbes to suggest that it maintained civil society. In his "Letter Concerning Toleration" he wrote: "Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the...Promises, Covenants, and Oaths, which are the Bonds of Humane Society, can have no hold upon an Atheist. The taking away of God, tho but even in thought,... | |
 | Roger Woolhouse - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 35 pages
...toleration was to be denied, for, on the grounds of a similar untrustworthiness, atheists were another: "those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an... | |
 | Hannah Dawson - Political Science - 2007 - 295 pages
...concerning Toleration, he explains why: 'promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of humane society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, tho but even in thought, dissolves all'.43 Without a sense of the obligation to obey God's will, pressed... | |
 | Garry Wills - United States - 2007 - 646 pages
...exception to Locke's scheme of toleration? j. Locke says that atheists must not be tolerated, Lastly, those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an... | |
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God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all. 
