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I don't think it depends on the religion so much as the adherents. All religions have the potential for intolerance. All groups do.
But I've met people from dozens of different religions around the planet and most of them treat you with respect regardless of your religion.
What's the most intolerant religion?
Would you say fundamentalism is a religious denomination?
Within any other group or affiliation?
Not really. Fundamentalism has more than one meaning. It can be a particular belief or it can be an attitude. How do you define it?
I am talking about the same attitude being applied to whatever belief the person is.
A fundamental Christian who rejects ALL Atheists being just as intolerant
as a fundamental Atheist who rejects ALL Christians.
Like someone else said, once they decide the other person's opposing belief is the enemy and is intolerant, they continue to be just as intolerant in return, so the two opposites clash.
Someone else pointed out we must have different ideas of what intolerance is.
I agree that it is relative. Depending on which group/view you cannot forgive and which
ones cannot forgive yours, but reject each other prima facie, people become intolerant in relation to that bias.
I don't think intolerance means it is permanent.
We can always have our preferences and disdains
but we don't have to be so unforgiving that we automatically reject a certain group and remain in conflict!
I believe that can change, and is almost inevitable,
since all that negative energy wasted in conflict causes suffering on all sides and is not sustainable.
Eventually out of pure desire to be free of suffering and avoid pain,
circumstances and relations come about to motivate us to let go of those areas where we are most
unforgiving and intolerant, and to seek ways of understanding that bring peace and satisfaction.
I believe the human conscience is driven this way,
and will not stop seeking until truth is established that resolves the underlying conflicts.
I won't respond to the personal dig, I'll just say that I was thinking the same thing about atheists. They feel the need to infringe upon the Constitution and force their beliefs on everyone else. Christians don't care what they believe as long we don't have to pay for it, like our tax money being used to teach evolution in the public schools. Now, can we refrain from the personal insults? Mature adults can disagree without name-calling, don't you think?SJ, everything you just claimed about atheism highlights yours own bigotry and intolerance of atheists, confirming your own Christian-inspired intolerance. Atheists don't care what anyone else believes, as long as we aren't paying for it or being affected by it. Unfortunately, Christians feel the need to infringe upon the constitution, and as long as they do, they will be met with resistance. Of course you call this intolerance: you aren't getting just you want. WHA!
Atheism is a religion like "off" is a TV Channel.
Now THAT'S a tough one.To go the opposite way, what, in your opinion, is the MOST tolerant?
I won't respond to the personal dig, I'll just say that I was thinking the same thing about atheists. They feel the need to infringe upon the Constitution and force their beliefs on everyone else. Christians don't care what they believe as long we don't have to pay for it, like our tax money being used to teach evolution in the public schools. Now, can we refrain from the personal insults? Mature adults can disagree without name-calling, don't you think?SJ, everything you just claimed about atheism highlights yours own bigotry and intolerance of atheists, confirming your own Christian-inspired intolerance. Atheists don't care what anyone else believes, as long as we aren't paying for it or being affected by it. Unfortunately, Christians feel the need to infringe upon the constitution, and as long as they do, they will be met with resistance. Of course you call this intolerance: you aren't getting just you want. WHA!
Atheism is the most intolerant religion on the planet (and yes, it IS a religion, and it's based on faith). They are intolerant of all other faiths, no matter who they are. They attack and belittle the very core of every single faith in the world, and seek legislation to silence them. That's pretty intolerant.
To go the opposite way, what, in your opinion, is the MOST tolerant?
I vote Islam. It's so intolerant, that non muslims are banned from entering its two holiest cities. Not a Saudi Rule, but an Koranic based rule, explicit for Mecca, and they imply it for Medina as well.
Atheism is not a religion, so any claims that atheism is the most intolerant is just an attempt to return like insult, however vacuously. Christianity had built into its scripture intolerant clauses, such as "no one comes to the father but through me." This mutually exclusive aspect of Christianity to any religions, makes it intolerant, were one to follow it literally. Islam is no more intolerant than Christianity. The only difference is that Christianity has had more exposure to scrutiny and had more time to tone itself down than Islam, as aptly an correctly pointed out by Sam Harris. Islam has been highly isolated since its inception, and has not had this opportunity to grow out of its more fundamental and extreme aspects as Christianity has, such as the crusades, the inquisition, witch trials, missionaries ripping cultures and countless indigenous families apart, all well documented, which forced Christianity to change or die out. It changed. Had Islam been subjected to the same conditions, the result would have been similar. To say that Islam is intrinsically more anything (violent, "evil") is a basic bias Christians have towards it. As an atheist, I consider both religions equally as false, but the question about why one is seemingly more violent is answered by both the bias of the perceiving theist (Christian or Muslim) and the specific history of each religions exposure to scrutiny.
All of them.
That's obviously not the case, but as most likely a liberal, your fear of insulting a darling group causes you to insult everyone.
Really? A liberal?
Well I suppose I am liberal in the sense that I put liberty above all else.
And I have no love of any religion. Religion is lust another control people allow to be placed on their minds
I vote Islam. It's so intolerant, that non muslims are banned from entering its two holiest cities. Not a Saudi Rule, but an Koranic based rule, explicit for Mecca, and they imply it for Medina as well.
It's a new religion. It's called "American Christianity". It's not like "traditional Christianity". This one wants poor people to starve and feel corporations should run the country. It's tied with Radical Islam.
The only thing that protects us is our law enforcement.
