Re: Is religion antithetical to democracy [formerly: Are Islam and Democracy Incompatible?]

chris alden wrote:
> AE wrote:
> > Christian tolerance always meant that everybody was allowed to become 
> > Christian, not that other religions ever would have been tolerated.
>
> Define tolerance. 

The base of tolerance is to believe the other person is equal to oneself.

The mere fact that Christians believe there is only one god and all 
other ones are false means it is impossible to truely tolerate other 
believes.

Others are tolerated while known to be on a wrong way and any true 
Christian would have to try to evangelize them to protect them from 
perdition.

These two facts - monotheism and the order to evengelize - make it 
impossible accept other religions as equal.

That's quite different in polytheist communities.

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