"7. Idea of worship not innate.- That 'God is to be worshiped,' is, without doubt, as great a truth as any can enter into the mind of man, and deserves the first place amongst all practical principles; but yet by no means be thought innate, unless the ideas of God and worship are innate."
I would have to agree with Locke in this sense that worship is not something that you inheret when you are born. You need only look at atheists who believe in nothing but science created the world and when we die we go to a box in the ground.
People start going to church, who are religous ones anyway, right after they are born. I was brought up this way, although now I'm not religous much anymore. Everything given to me in book and scripture was new to me. I have no idea what had happened with the world, and if my parents didn't take me, I never would have though at the time worshiping was necessary.
Locke also says that if you think worshiping is innate, then you would have to make God innate as well, which in the next blog post, you'll see how I described it.
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i kind of disagree with you which is why i also blogged on the same quote. i do think that the idea of god and worship is innate simply because i dont think thats something learned from experience. the idea of god and worship is something borned within us. i would have to agree with descartes on his idea of god being the creator of all and god himself being the one putting the idea into our minds.
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