religious tolerance

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Americas-True-History-of-Religious-Tolerance.html Interesting article if you are into American history. I'm not sure the Catholics have totally forgotten this--they seem to love to complain they've been persecuted by the Protestants, though I...

Read an interesting article in the New York Times today: Survey Shows U.S. Religious Tolerance The article is about a poll conducted by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life using phone interviews of 35,000 Americans. The interesting part is that a majority of the religious folks...

You may remember a rare event when the Prophet Mohammed was depicted with a bomb on his bonnet. Over here in London, some Islamists got their pants in a twist, and marched upon the street in their fantastic London accents declaring Britain (As remember, these guys do not see themselves as...

Hallelujah! I have had what could likely be called a religious experience. It happened last night at a pub in Houston called McGonigal’s Mucky Duck. The Duck is a wonderful place to catch acoustic and local music in an atmosphere that includes plenty of European beers, great pub grub, and...

While out teaching today, actually a person with ADHD/OCD, it occurred to me what differentiates Science from religions... When a person is born with "a condition" {as we all are!}, Science seeks to explain and solve it, to improve peoples lives. Religion normally "shuns" such people; how...

God Bless the USA! :usa:

I've just finished watching a very thought-provoking TV show called "The Trouble With Atheism". In it, the presenter travels round the world talking to relligious believers and atheists. He interviews the physicist Rocky Kolb and the famous Darwinian zoologist Richard Dawkins. Also featured are...

I've been lurking on these forums for a while. It's been fun and informatve reading the discussions taking place here. I've had enough of being quiet now, and I'm ready to start picking this forum's collective brain. The point of my first diatribe is as follows: Religious tolerance is not...

Taken from the Peninsula 19/02/06 Addressing a US-Islamic World Forum which he opened here yesterday, Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem said: “We must exert our best efforts to prevent provocation and respect beliefs and sacred religious symbols of people without discrimination.”...

Is worthwhile. http://religioustolerance.org/ Pssst, pass it on. :clap:

Should any religion be tolerated? Even ones as bizzare as say, Franko's or Marxist2's (the question of if they actually believe thier religion is beside the point)? Should fundimentalists be allowed to practice thier religion? Should we accept all people's beliefs as just thier way of facing...