Historic Christian doctrine held atheists incapable of honoring social bonds

Evidence

Those are not at all to be tolerated who deny the being of a God. Promises, covenants, and oaths, which are the bonds of human society, can have no hold upon an atheist. The taking away of God, though but even in thought, dissolves all. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 226

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• XREF: This anticipates the distrust-of-atheists finding and gives historical depth to the claim the novel’s Japanese authorities invert — treating the Jesuit God rather than atheists as the corrosive commitment.