Why am I expected to tolerate the intolerance of religion?

Question

I asked this question yesterday and enough report happy religious people, reported it and got it banned, does this just prove my point?

Answer 1

You are expected to tolerate the intolerance of religion, just as i am expected to tolerate religious people telling me that i am a sinner for not believing in god, they also say they will pray for me, knock on my doors to convert me, ask if i have been saved and other religions fly planes into buildings in the name of their religion. If i have to tolerate that, you can listen to my hatred for people who follow religion.

Answer 2

You call religious people intolerant, yet you have questioned whether or not it's a good idea to go around and kill all religious leaders? Since I'm tolerating a troll like you, I guess you need to tolerate me. There's room for everyone, of all beliefs, on this planet. I'm sorry that you've only experienced the bad ones. I'll pray that find acceptance and happiness. God bless ~

Answer 3

The way the question is phrased, you are asking why you have to deal with people who will not tolerate religion. The way it is phrased implies you are religious, yet your additional comments do not appear to be so.

I think SOME atheists feel threatened by discussion about religion and feel they need to rail against it, no matter the situation. If it were a case where they were beign dragged into church and forced to participate, I could see their point. However, since the Constituion guarantess freedom OF (not from, but OF) religion, that is not the case. Rational atheists I know merely see religion as delusional wish fulfillment or insecurity, and feel no need to deabte the point or argue over it. Belief is a choice, and argung about it is about as sensible as arguins over what someone else (at another table no less)ordered for themselves at a restaruant.

I am religious, and am not offended by those who have made other choices. I do get annoyed when someone makes a different choice and then is rude to me about my choice. (Again, how would someone react after they placed an order at a restaurant and a stranger came over and told them they were stupid for ordering that?)

Answer 4

Why do you think religion is intolerant? People are intolerant. My beliefs teach me tolerance and acceptance. There are people who go to the same church as me, yet they haven't received the same message. They treat those different from themselves with hatred and intolerance. It wasn't the church that made them that way. I think a lot of people generalize. One so-called Christian is judgmental of them, so every Christian in the world is evil. That's almost the same as saying, "I met a mean black man once, so I know they're all mean." Don't judge the religion, judge the people. It's not important to me that you accept my religious choices or believe what I believe, but that you respect me a a human being - allow me to make my choices without criticizing me and I will do the same.

Answer 5

"There is no sense in being an as*shole if you can't prove it."

I think anyone who reports anyone for anything is just a tool! But that is my personal opinion...

You are not expected to do anything by me... Personally, I could give a rat's butt what you tolerate and don't. I don't argue personal choice and decision, I will only tell you what my reasons are for agreeing or disagreeing and that is all anyone should ever do. People miss the mark greatly on here.

Rock on dude! But know... I do not like, believe, or follow religion but I totally respect you if you feel a need for it! If it brings a man closer to God... Who is anyone to try and take that right and privlidge to grow and evolve away from anyone? God finds the heart in the deepest muck you can hide it under... It doesn't matter the means by which you love Him, just so long as you continue to grow in His understanding and don't allow the religion... or the need to argue it half to death, to become the main focus of your walk. THe very fact that it is exactly what the religious do... is the reason I chose to (just barely) tolerate it but not want to participate in it at all... ever again!

Answer 6

i ask myself the same question every day.

btw, that's an abuse of the reporting system. reporting is for extreme cases, not for if you disagree with someone's views. i don't feel your question was inappropriate at all. what i do feel is inappropriate is the question the other day that asked "why were atheists so stupid and don't believe in god when they know there is a god?" as an atheist i was really offended by this display of ignorance and intolerance. people like that make me sick. i don't hate people because they're christians. in fact, some of my best friends are christians, and i respect that because they respect my beliefs.

i really regret not reporting that person for posting such an idiotic, disrespectful question. i'm going to look for the question again today, and if i see it, i am going to flag it. i encourage anyone that's reading this to stand up for yourself and others by preventing the abuse of the reporting system and to only use it when absolutely necessary- because there's a big difference between open discussion and slander. an appropriate question would have been- "if you are atheist/christian, just curious, why?" not- "atheists/christians are stupid because of their beliefs!?!?"

Answer 7

Not all people who are religious are intolerant. I am not. I live my life according to the principles that I believe. I believe it is good to be tolerant of other people's choices, unless it causes harm to another being. Intolerance hurts people (emotionally and physically). In the end, religous or non-religious, every person has to decide what their principles are and live according to those principles. It really has nothing to do with religion but more with the type of person that you are. Religious and non-religious people alike can be intolerant.

Answer 8

Because you are willing to be influenced by those who are expectant of you. You are free to make a choice, to tolerate the intolerant, to look to the future and not the tribalistic medieval past. Learn from history, learn from the Holocausts & Ethnic Cleansing Religious belief has caused Do you want more of the same NO.

Answer 9

You do not have to accept what the rest of this world is doing, if it is not doing what the word of God expects from us. If the rest of this world is sinning, you do not have to tolerate it. If the religions are not teaching the true word of God, you do not have to tolerate it. IF you are a Christian, you are to stand on the word of God and point out to others when they are not following it. If you tolerate what the world is doing, which is sinning and murdering, and having homosexual relations etc. then you are going agains God. You are to be a Chrhistian 100% of the time and not just part time. You do not have to tolerate anything that goes against the word of God.

Answer 10

I will NOT report you..
I agree, God is intolerant! He is very intolerant and wants his people to be that way. But then he is God and did make us and owns the whole place, how tolerant does he have to be. He should have struck all of us down with lightning and he hasn't. In that sense he is tolerant of us.. The Bible uses the word merciful about that.

Answer 11

RFK said "What is objectionable, and what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant." Obviously this applies to religious extremists, both Christian and Muslim. Tolerance is the key here, your dead on. Now whether you should be tolerant of the intolerant.... that is tricky. It is similar to the death penalty argument. Someone kills and that is bad, should you then kill them for it? My personal belief in both cases is that you have to strive to be the more evolved creature and take the high road. Easier said than done though, I know.