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Quotation from A Letter Concerning Toleration by John Locke
“Lastly, Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the Being of a God. Promises, Covenants, and Oaths, which are the Bonds of Humane Society, can have no hold upon an Atheist.”
A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, on the limits of toleration, trans. William Popple
The last of Locke's exclusions, resting on his view that society depends on oaths sworn before God.
Citation: "Lastly, Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the Being of a God. Promises, Covenants, and Oaths, which are the Bonds of Humane Society, can have no hold upon an Atheist." — John Locke, A Letter Concerning Toleration, Letter, on the limits of toleration, trans. William Popple. (id a-letter-concerning-toleration-q7)
Portrait: Portrait of John Locke, Godfrey Kneller, Public domain.
