The material is the idea within the mind which represents the object outside the mind being received by the senses. By combining, comparing and analyzing these materials or ideas arising through sensations, we derive thoughts. Knowledge is not sense perception but intellectual perception. Locke argued in his Letters Concerning Toleration that no one religion is capable of demonstrating its exclusive claim to be the one and true religion. It is wrong therefore to impose any one religion upon the free consciences of people.
People ought to live in complete tolerance of one another's faiths.
Governments were organized for the protection of all the citizens. Society was formed by the unanimous agreement of its members to live in one community for purposes of protection. The form a government takes derives from the consent of the majority of the citizens. Since all governments are created by the people, the ultimate authority resides with the people and not with the created government. Governments exist for the protection of the natural rights of every citizen.