Is Religious Freedom Possible Without Capitalism?

John Locke and the Commercial Roots of Religious Tolerance

Today, we take the value of tolerance as a given. But there was a time when tolerance had to be argued for. There was a time when tolerance was, as it were, a disruptive “social technology.” When examining past thinkers, we find that the great formulators of the value of religious tolerance mixed their arguments with sentiments that we might find “intol…