Why is the Intolerance of religion socially acceptable?

Answer 1

Its becoming acceptable, because people are waking up. People are realizing that religion was a tool created way back in the day to control the masses, not a pathway to salvation. People are realizing that religion is the root of all evil in the world. People are realizing that in order to live free, we must drop the burden of living in fear of an invisible parent figure looming over us in the sky. Hopefully more people will wake up and discover that the lives we lead, are our own, we are our own people and it is up to us to make the world better, for us, not hope that god has some master plan where he allows children to be born with birth defects, diseases to thin the herd and other general craziness to run rampant. Its in its infancy, but hopefully people will stop the madness and run from religion as if it were a disease.

Answer 2

where is the intolerance you speak of. In most of the free world free to believe and have any religion you would like. It is in some Muslims country's the intolerance of religion is acceptable. To clearly answer your question then you need to clearly ask the question.

Answer 3

For one thing it just may be that freedom of thought is open to many interpretations. I'm pretty much tolerant of all religions as long as they don't wake me up on Saturday morning or attempt to make me convert to their religion. It's not so much that religion is socially unacceptable it's just that some folks have a very narrow view of the world that their God made.

Answer 4

Religions have traditionally been illiberal, it rather is not something new. All religions share an identical marketplace place and a benefit for one faith is a loss for the others that's why they spend a lot funds on missionary artwork to develop their shopper base, they're noticeably illiberal of folk who have no faith (atheists) as this undermines the full faith industry.

Answer 5

What? Why wouldn't it be? What society are you looking at? Whose intolerance? What religion?

Answer 6

You should know. You ARE one of the radical-religion-intolerant!

Answer 7

i think because intolernace is built in to many belief systems. the notion that a particular religion sees itself as 'the only, one, true religion' can be irksome if you are not of that faith. and if you are of that faith you might view other religions as wrong, incorrect, even blasphemous.
that goes the same for non-believers. they are irked by people who do believe and view believers as wrong, incorrect, and even stupid.
the problem is that no one can respect other's beliefs as is. they always seem to want to change their belief or to get them not to believe at all. the real answer is to live and let live--regardless of one's personal beliefs.

Answer 8

King of the Hill syndrome . My idea of God is better than yours. Still acting like little children establiing their social order.

Answer 9

Because Christians tolerate no one and spread hate to all there skinhead friends.
Tammi Dee

Answer 10

For a people to compromise their beliefs because somebody wants them to be more politcally correct would be to deny their faith altogether.
The message of Christ was love, you simply interpret it as hate.