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In Treatise on Toleration, Voltaire argued that since religious intolerance is “absurd and barbaric” for it rebuts natural law it is far worse than the right of the tiger “for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs.” However, imagining that there were no religion or that the idea of religism-discrimination against a specific religion, does not carry on, is easier said than done; that is why John Lennon said to “imagine” a world of peace and tolerance in his Imagine instead of “see” for this concept is still in a dreamer’s mind and not yet in reality.
I believe that religious tolerance is the willingness to accept everyone no matter what their religion is. Nowadays, we see society culturally accepting people of different beliefs and standards whether it pertains to abortion or gay marriage which is the political hot-topic of the day. So if the likelihood of tolerance is probable, why isn't the same concept applied to religion? If asked what religion is, I would answer it is the basis in defining who we are and what we stand for. It is a coexistence of the humanities’ ideologies of learning to cope if not to accept each others difference while getting through with the adversity of hatred and poor judgments We all have beliefs, although our beliefs, may contradict; we still must have respect for one another because “we are all formed of frailty and error” And so, “let us pardon each other’s folly” (Voltaire).
Ever since the founding of America, religious tolerance has been a top priority of our founders who founded this great land on the basis of freedom to “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” Religious tolerance is one of these as printed in the Constitution; “Congress shall make ...

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...ch other’s weakness and disbelieves. In a Canadian Supreme court case, it was ruled that when asking for tolerance as a whole (could be religious), people aren’t asked to abandon their practices, but rather respect the values and ways of those whose ideals might not be the same as theirs for all is entitle to equal right and respect, no matter what their believes are and whether or no who or what they pray to is right or wrong. Although we are close to achieving this goal with the helps of many new policies and society more accepting of people’s personal beliefs, we are still far from it. And eve if we get there, there should not be rules that restrict certain elderly religions such as Judaism and Roman Catholicism should not be deprived of their right to maintain their basic standard to morality and religion for that would alter the motives of religious tolerance.

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