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To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (491628)	6/29/2009 8:13:06 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574708

"These were massive, critical steps forward." And was fought by the Church every step of the way.

To: Steve Dietrich who wrote (491628)	6/29/2009 8:33:48 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1574708

Neither Locke nor Jefferson was antithetical to religion. Locke actually justified freedom of conscience on religous grounds. Coercion or authority can't produce a meaningful commitment to God that leads to salvation. For men to be saved, they need to be free to choose salvation. However, Locke didn't believe in toleration for atheists because he said: 'Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist'. Jefferson was a unitarian, but a regular churchgoer, and was interested enough in religion to edit the New Testament as he thought it ought to have been. Call him a heretic, but not anti-religious. Paine was antithetical to religion but he wasn't a major figure in either the development of philosophy or science.