Do you believe our world should practice *Tolerance* A cry for inclusiveness and universalism?

Question

Do you think all religious beliefs are equally valid and equally true?. Do you think It would be judgmental to assert one religious expression over another?

If you do believe this, then how would one know GOD if he is equal in all beliefs? this tolerance would be nothing but meaningless and empty faith. This is what a One World Government would be about. If you think the world should be tolerant of all faiths and practices, are you worried that you are perpetuating a One World Government to come to power?

Answer 1

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Love and Believe in Our Creator;
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Answer 2

This is not what tolerance originally meant. Even the quote "I DISAPPROVE of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." is not a "cry for inclusiveness or universalism", but rather it's "a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior". It does not "think all religious beliefs are equally valid or equally true", otherwise there would be no disapproval of the beliefs of others.

"Intolerance does not arise when I think I have found the truth. Rather it arises comes about only when I think that, because I have found it, everyone else should agree with me."

- Michael Behe, Darwin's Black Box, p. 250

Answer 3

No I don't believe that all religions are equally true. Otherwise what would be my point in having my beliefs? I do try to peacefully co-exist with those who have different beliefs (as much as I can, I don't think I could hang out with say a Satanist).

However this doesn't mean that I need to change what I believe or even integrate other's beliefs into my own faith.

Hope this helps,

BD

Answer 4

There will NEVER be a One World Government. Human nature causes us to be too divisive. The world however should be tolerant of all faiths and practices. There's no reason for armed conflict over religion.

Answer 5

It's much more about tolerating individuals' rights to believe differently from yourself and understanding that it's not your concern than it is about God being "equal in all beliefs."

And a One World Government will be perpetuated over my dead body.

Answer 6

although impossible, practicing tolerance would be a great improvement. i don't vote for inclusiveness/universalism because they are simply not possible and can be mutually exclusive of the tolerance objective.

but to clarify your thinking:
1. with tolerance, religious belief (of lack thereof) does not need to be valid or equally true.
2. with tolerance, the need to assert one of the other would not exist - one would simply follow the path that one desired.
3. God IS equal in his regard for all human beings. we are the ones with the conflicting opinions and ideas and disagreements.

and, finally, your last question is rhetorical since you are already assigning a value to any response that differs from your perspective.

God is about healthy, loving relationships in our lives, be it at work, in our families, and with total strangers. if you work hard to have healthy, unselfish, and tolerant relationships in all aspects of your life, you are a follower of Christ.

Answer 7

Tolerance must be kept in context.

The Christian life style acknowledges that we humans are imperfect by nature. We fall short of the glory of God, and we are all sinners (we do things against the word of God, or things that "irritate" God and one another).

The tolerance spoken about in the Christian teachings is one that makes allowances for folks. If God knows our weaknesses and is still willing to forgive us when we fail, we should follow that lead, and be willing to forgive when someone offends us, too.

In this way, our willingness to forgive, is "tolerance". We are to tolerate or bear with one another as we strive for the perfection of God.

People who do not know the word of God are to be tolerated as well, because the do not know any better.

Those individuals who willfully sin and are not repentant are not to be tolerated. Many willful sins in biblical times were punishable by death. Others were punished by banishment. They were "kicked out" of the community, and told to go live elsewhere until they could stop sinning.

In modern times, I see that the death penalty still exists, but only for the most horrible murderers. We no longer use banishment at all.

Our current society has come from a time where most sins were looked down on and sinners were despised for their sins. This was incorrect. We should have been trying to help the sinners overcome whatever temptations they were faced with, not putting them down.

Now, in an effort to mend our ways, we have overcompensated and taken accountability away from people and view them as "victims". People are free to claim that they just cannot help themselves, that the temptations were just too great, "I cannot stop", "the devil made me do it", and a host of other lame excuses.

We must settle somewhere in the middle. We must hold one another accountable and responsible for our own behavior. When we do something wrong, we should reprimand or rebuke one another with a spirit of Love. We most certainly don't want to destroy the sinners of the world, but we should give them a chance to be better than they were.

Sin is just a fact of life. All sin offends God. If we were more concerned with our relationship with God, the rest would settle itself. If we did as the bible prescribed regarding sin, there might be much less of it to worry about.

Answer 8

It doesn't matter if all religious beliefs aren't equally valid or true, just that each individual should be allowed have their own religious beliefs without them being forced on them or they forcing them on another.

This is why I am against people trying to change established religions, trying to make those religions conform to themselves rather than adopting or creating a religion of their own which embraces their beliefs. Seek out God in your own way, and if your way is that of others then seek Him with them. If it isn't, then don't insist that they change how they seek Him to appease you.

Answer 9

To me, tolerance and inclusiveness have not got a "slippery slope" to start with. there is not any such component as too lots inclusiveness. If human beings rather respected one yet another and taken care of their fellow beings with tolerance and dignity, the international may well be a much greater effective place.

Answer 10

well, those who practice Jihad in a violent way think they are right and Pres Bush kills in the name of his religion. So, no, I don't think we should tolerate all beliefs, some are crazy. What we should do is not have religions based on belief, but based on knowledge. Knowledge is when you personally experience a reality, not just believe in it 2nd hand because someone else experienced it.

Answer 11

Kind of lost me with that one world thing. Without tolerance, which I don't expect to be universal in my lifetime, we will continue to cull the human population with war and other forms of destruction using the artifical constructs of religious dogmas to justify the carnage.
Who knows, maybe God constructed us that way to maintain the culling mechanism?