Religious intolerance ...?

Question

Are you for or against it ?

Answer 1

Why I'm FOR religious intolerance:

It shows how stupid religious people can be and uncovers the evil and inhumane in them. Let them be intolerant and show their true selves. Religions MUST be intolerant of heresy and outside theories else they cease to be a religion. You cannot "become tolerant", accept other opinions as valid or viable and "water down" your orthodoxy without changing into someone who is not religious, without it becoming just a philosophy of life.

I'm FOR religious intolerance, so the truly tolerant out there can show up those who are not.

Answer 2

Against any sort of intolerance, you can do what ever you want if it doesn't effect other people. The feeling that you are living life by a religious standard would give people a sense of relief and safety I would never want to take away. I only wish I had some sort of religious belief, the way I see it-Ignorance is bliss.

Answer 3

Against it. Definitely against it.

As an atheist, I've been dealt deeply damaging behavior before on religious grounds. Sadly, most of it hasn't come from strangers, but my own family, from people who claim to love me. I long to tell them that I not only quit going to church, but became an atheist because of the abuse I endured growing up, even when I was still a believer.

But I can't. The backlash would likely land in the nearest psychological ward in the proverbial padded room. I'm certain I would be disowned if I told anyone beyond my mother and husband of my true beliefs.

Personal reasons aside, well, one needs to only look at the climate in America these days to prove that religious intolerance is harmful. People who look even REMOTELY Arabic are treated with scorn and fear, like they'll be the next one to suicide bomb something. In Feudal Japan, Christians were regularly executed out of fear of westernizing the then-isolationist Japanese nation. People in Communist nations tend to hide their beliefs, especially if they're not state-condoned activities.

World peace won't be achieved by everyone agreeing on one God or another. Fighting over the matter certainly won't make it happen any faster, let alone bringing about such a change by force. Only when people realize their differences and accept them will religious intolerance truly end.

Answer 4

Remember more churches have been burned in N. America than Mosques or Synagogues. No one should be burning any of the three or any thing else religious down any way. Regardless of what any govt says no one can control your beliefs. However, they may be able to control your actions. What is intolerance any way? If I think gee your a great neighbor, but your faith is leading you to hell, am I intolerant? Or is the person who says that because I believe there IS a God I can't teach at a public school.

Answer 5

I'm against all forms of intolerance not only religious.

Answer 6

Against intolerance.
It's not my business what God people pray to. I don't understand why people can't live their own lives the way that they want to, and let others do the same. It would make things a hell of a lot easier.

Answer 7

Interesting....following Bible teaching may bring result which major religions cannot expect ...Followers will leave churches, as it happening time to time. Some passages suggesting to renounce the world and a churches is part of the world as well as religions. Renouncing does not mean rejection, but allowance the the world to exist with no judgment made but with absence of the one who renounces it. Not necessarily physical absence but mental one.If no judgment present in alliance , then there won't be "for" or "against" of anything, you simply out of ongoing drama which bothers...

Answer 8

How can you be for religious intolerence? Religious tolerance has been part of the constitution for ever! We're moving backwards if we start burning mosques and synagouges.

Answer 9

I'm FOR intolerance against ALL organized religion. Religion is the biggest evil on the face of the earth.

Answer 10

I tolerate all religions, seeing as how I'm sorronded by extremly religious people and I myself have no real religion or need for religion. Judaisism, Christianity, Muslim all very decent ideals and epic stories, yet very ironically misinterpreted