 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 atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all.  The Eclectic Review - Pagina 201geredigeerd door - 1829Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Joseph Dan - 2005 - 708 pagina’s
...Locke in the seventeenth century, who also portrayed atheists as menacing and treacherous by nature: "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... | |
 | Chana B. Cox - 2006 - 302 pagina’s
...each in their own way "keepers of faith." He will not tolerate atheists in his commonwealth: 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 human society, can have no hold upon an atheist.... | |
 | Christian Walter - 2006 - 712 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Geoffrey M. Vaughan - 2007 - 188 pagina’s
...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 Being of a God. Promises, Covenants, and Oaths, which are the Bonds of Humane Society, can have no hold upon an Atheist.... | |
 | Roger Woolhouse - 2007 - 35 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Garry Wills - 2007 - 646 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Scott J. Kester - 2008 - 146 pagina’s
...God to that end."62 In Locke's idea of religious freedom, toleration did have its limits: "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 human society, can have no hold upon an atheist."63... | |
 | Paul Russell - 2008 - 442 pagina’s
...tolerated precisely on the ground that they are incapable of obeying or keeping promises or oaths. "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.... | |
 | Ingrid Creppell, Russell Hardin, Stephen Macedo - 2008 - 320 pagina’s
...be no less moral than one of Christians (Bayle 1682). But even Locke could not accept Bayle's claim: Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the Being of a God. Promises, Covenants, and Oaths, which are the Bounds of Humane Society, can have no hold upon an Atheist.... | |
 | Melissa S. Williams, Jeremy Waldron - 2008 - 462 pagina’s
...atheists are concerned, Locke also makes a sweeping general claim as to why they are not to be tolerated: 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.... | |
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