Are Christianity and Islam the only intolerant religions, or are there others?

Answer 1

Well yes. I do not know of any other for now.

"It is a curious fact that the hideous and bloody monster of religious tolerance was hardly known in India until, first the followers of Mohammed and secondly, the disciples of the meek and lowly Jesus, began to invade the land."

(source: India - Its Life and Thought - By John P Jones p. 166).

I would rather skipped and not answered this question but some thoughtless interjections about Hinduism made me pitch in.

How come caste system is related with religious tolerance?

And this is one of the most maligned and misrepresented cultural system by west.

Caste system was originally based on profession and is more like labour unions.

And its much less to do with Hinduism religious beliefs than Slavery and Racism are related with Abrahmic religions. Check this out :

http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Caste_System.htm

Secularism is inherent in Hindu ethos since Hindu philosophy believed that all faiths lead to God just as all rivers lead to the Sea.

"The religions whose theology is least preoccupied with events in time and most concerned with eternity, have been consistently less violent and more humane in political practice. Unlike early Judaism, Christianity and Mohammedanism (all obsessed with time) Hinduism and Buddhism have never been persecuting faiths, have preached almost no holy wars and have refrained from that proselytizing religious imperialism which has gone hand in hand with political and economic oppression of colored people."

source: The Perennial philosophy - By Aldous Huxley

It does not believe in concepts of proselytization, heresy hunting, Holy wars, proclamation of chosen people or a jealous God.

Hinduism does not believe in bringing about a mechanical uniformity of belief and worship by a forcible elimination of all that is not in agreement with a particular creed. Hindus have never conquered, plundered or committed genocides on other peoples and they never will, primarily because the deeper values enshrined in the Sanatana Dharma are against such mindless violence and expansionism.

Secularism evolved in Europe as a negation of religious authority as embodied in church theocracy. It was a humanistic movement which had at its goal the removal of religious authority from the affairs of the state. The idea of a secular form of government – with priestly authority separated from the affairs of the state – is a relatively recent development in Europe. Samuel Huntington of the Clash of Civilizations fame needs no introduction. In his book of the same name, he writes, "Only in Hindu civilization were religion and politics so distinctly separated.

Tolerance is not one way road though . You can not eternally hit a civilization without some reaction.

Constant attacks on Hinduism from Islam and the Christians has made them some of them sit up. But if ever Hindus do hit back it wont be much different than self defense agaist a roober who has entered your home and wants to anhilate you.

In fact SIMI blasted some bombs a few year back. Church blamed RSS and it keeps on blaming it despite it was proven wioth evidences and details in couert how SIMI carried out that attck. But IN INdia it is more profitable for church to blame Hindus than Muslims .....

Majority Hindus never support violent tactics. and Tolerance is basic feature of hinduism.

I do wish RSS and other organisations were acting in more matured way. They blabber a lot and organisations like Bajrang Dal do silly acts like disrupting valentine day fesvals in name of culture. Its childish and only gives others to defame whole community in a exaggerated way.

But RSS never have been involved in a masscre. Its more of a propogonda and many in India try to look politically correct and balanced and make RSS a scape goat blaiming it to look secular.

It talks about nationalism and thats enough to get it communal label. As it criticise Muslims for saying their religion is more important than nationalism or speaks against unethical conversion tactics by christians.

http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Islamic_Onslaught.htm
http://www.atributetohinduism.com/European_Imperialism.htm
http://www.atributetohinduism.com/Conversion.htm
http://www.christianaggression.org/search.php

Even Buddhist in Srilanka are getting heat from LITTE which though declares for working for rights of Hindus and Tamils actually run by Christians only. It fraudulantly declares to save Hindus from Buddhists while it does everything to eradicate this belief and culture and prohibits it .

Its Cheif Prabhakaran and all the cader is Christian and is among most cruel terrorist organisation.

I just wonder how come lying and deciet are so prominant among These Abrahmic religions Chritianity and Islam? Why they feel a need to malign other beliefs to look better?

And may be, I m am not being tolerant right now by answering bullshit being posted here. But I believe, being tolerant of other faiths, does not include accepting defamation and false accusations about ones own , passively.

Answer 2

Orthodox Jews can still get really mean. And to a previous answer, that people are intolerant, not religions.

Sorry, no. When it is inherent to a religious belief that it is the ONLY correct way, and that entire classes of people displease their deity, or that all other religions are enemies and their members must be put under pressure to convert, then yes it is the RELIGION itself that contains the intolerance. This is what we see with Christians and Muslims, and Jews with the whole Chosen People thing. Although I must admit that the Jews have calmed down and in general become much nicer in the last few hundred years. But like I said there are still a few fundamentalists.

Answer 3

Some members of all groups discriminate, Christianity and Islam aren't the only ones. I can think of a couple examples of how Judaism discriminates and is intolerant.

Answer 4

PEOPLE are intolerant
not religions

just becuase some people who call themselves christians or islamic are intolerant does NOT mean the whole religion is

Answer 5

Islam is really the only one among the major religions that I know of whose doctrine is one of intolerance (unless, by some stretch of the imagination, you can call atheism a religion).

Answer 6

It isn't that Christianity is an intolerant religion, it is the fact the some political parties have hijacked it and used it as a tool to their political gain. I am a gay Reverend, and nothing irks me more than the Republican party spewing out hate in the name of Christianity. It really is kinda sickening.

Answer 7

Certainly not.

Just look at the extreme hindu fundamentalism of the RSS - the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, instrumental in many of India's anti-muslim riots and massacres.

Or Sri Lanka's "Buddhist Monks Party" which preaches a philosophy of religious and political intolerance towards the country's minority Hindus, Christians and Muslims.

Any absolutist belief system is corruptible...

Answer 8

Well, as you can tell by some of the answers, people tend to believe that THEIR religion is the TRUE religion. Meanwhile, The Big X is sitting up on high, sighing and rolling his/her/it's eyes (metaphorically speaking, for you literalists), calling up the council to decide whether we were ever worth all the trouble we've caused.
Seriously, anyone who believes that THEY know the "mind of God" is not rational. We can no more understand the workings of "God" than an ant can understand the human mind.

Answer 9

Humanistic thinking is intolerant. Atheism is intolerant. Paganism is intolerant...
And the list goes on.
If you disagree then you haven't read enough answers on this site.

Answer 10

Islam is false doctrine and a lie . It was written after the Bible and was made to lead man away from the truth . Hypothetically speaking , if their god was the true god , would he allow another doctrine to come before his ? I don't think so ! Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved . John 14:6

Answer 11

Christianity is not intolerant, just the truth.