POLS 4080 Lecture Notes - Presupposition, Protestantism
22 Jan 2014
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It is precisely violence or the threat of violence that defines persecution: when it comes to religion, everybody is perfectly free to try to spread the word, no one should use force to attempt to change the beliefs o, to attempt to coerce individual, as if using violence could affect a change in belief which locke doesn"t think can be done, waldron says that locke is making the argument that persecution is irrational wrong tool for the job, waldron"s argument doesn"t really change, epistemological argument doesn"t change, no belief can be coerced according to locke, waldron says, granting that one can still argue that coercion can be effective at changing belief if used in this way (requiring people to attend church, recite creed, reading books, controlling what books are available, you indirectly have an influence on the beliefs that they form o these ways.
