Not exact matches
The Dutch
people are
tolerant, he told me, and hence in Amsterdam, there are no ethnic or
religious minorities, an achievement made possible by the fact that although a majority
of residents are
of Dutch descent, only around 25 percent call themselves Christian.
How
tolerant are atheists
of religious minded
people working for them?
I do know some great,
religious people, but they are private about their religion and
tolerant of other beliefs.
If the point
of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation
of the good qualities
of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less»
person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more
tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League
Religious Team?
I know a lot
of religious people who are
tolerant / supportive
of gays or gays themselves.
We think
of faith as a source
of comfort and understanding but find our expressions
of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a
tolerant people even as racial,
religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape.