"...Locke’s argument – accepting the Restoration and King Charles’s later Act of Uniformity – is that religious dissent is less important than peace, that people ought to accept the religious policies of the reigning establishment...." - clearly he had no idea about the devastating religious war(s) in Europe, leading to the Peace of Westphalia (1648), in which the various parties/countries involved agreed on a much longed-for freedom of religion and religious expression. Spain's violently forced catholicism ('blessed' by Rome) was incompatible with many of the regions it tried to control. fortunately there was Monty Python - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Df191WJ3o
"...Locke’s argument – accepting the Restoration and King Charles’s later Act of Uniformity – is that religious dissent is less important than peace, that people ought to accept the religious policies of the reigning establishment...." - clearly he had no idea about the devastating religious war(s) in Europe, leading to the Peace of Westphalia (1648), in which the various parties/countries involved agreed on a much longed-for freedom of religion and religious expression. Spain's violently forced catholicism ('blessed' by Rome) was incompatible with many of the regions it tried to control. fortunately there was Monty Python - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Df191WJ3o
To be fair to Locke, he did change his mind on the topic.