Sunday, August 26, 2007
To Tolerate is to Affront
I’m beginning to question the idea of religious tolerance. This is not because I don’t believe in the concept of the various world religions coexisting, because I do. But because tolerance is not acceptance. And therein lies the distinction. According to Webster, tolerance means a “ sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own”. Of course, sympathy for a different religion just means an affinity, association, or relationship between two religions...
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