LOCKE: God is NOT Innate [I. iv.]

"And I suppose there cannot be anything more ridiculous than to say that, children have this practical prinicple innate, that "God is to be worshipped;" and yet that they know not what that worship of God"(Sec. 7 pg.44)

Locke believes that God is not innate because the ideas of God and worship is not innate. When children are born they do not understand the meaning of the word "worship". He kind of compares the word "God" with "fire", "heat", and all these other words we do not understand when we are born. He says that we begin to understand these words when we get information from outside sources. He uses an example with children and if they were on an island alone with fire then they would not know the name of fire or what it is used for. I agree with him because it kind of reminds of the the idea that cavemen or whoever discovered fire did not know what it ws at first or what to do with it.