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Toleration, also commonly known as tolerance, is "the practice of deliberately allowing or permitting a thing of which one disapproves. One can meaningfully speak of tolerating, ie of allowing or permitting, only if one is in a position to disallow”. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to
nourish,
sustain or
preserve". Toleration may signify “no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant
religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as
inferior, mistaken or harmful”.[1]
Historically, most incidents and writings pertaining to toleration involve the conflict between a dominant or
state religion and
minority or dissenting viewpoints. In the twentieth century and after, analysis of the
doctrine of toleration has been expanded to include
political and
ethnic groups,
homosexuals and other
minorities.
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At this point in time nothing is more important than reading the article about 'tolerance.
Take 4-6 minutes and read it: Tolerance
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References
^Perez Zagorin, How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2003)
ISBN0691092702 , pp. 5-6, quoting D.D. Raphael et al.
^Michael Walzer, On Toleration (New Haven: Yale University Press 1997)
ISBN0300076002 p. 17
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