Are you an atheist DDN? Just curious. I'm sure you're aware as how certain atheist governments (Mexico, Cambodia, Albania, China, to a lesser extent Turkey) have matched the worst excesses of any religious institution in history- and considering the Spanish Inquisition, that's saying a lot. Read Graham Greene's novel 'The Power and the Glory" for more.I used to be an atheist, and when i was an atheist I was less tolerant than I am now as a neo-Hindu. In my experience many of the most tolerant people I know are devoutly religious.
Consider this: As an athiest, one is forced to claim that the majority of teh world's population is wrong. As a Hindu, hwoever, I follow Mr. Gandhi when he said that all religions were fundamentally true. Which seems more tolerant?
most of my friends in high school were Catholic. If there is any signle church which can be called representative of Christianity, it is the RCC, which traces its descent in a direct line from Jesus Himself, through Peter. These guys were generally among the most tolerant people I know. Certainly more tolerant than my atheist father, who was one of teh best men i ever knew. My grandmother had horrible things done to her by her in-laws because of her Christian faith; yet she forgave them. I find it hard to believ that her religion played no part in that. (she was a Hindu at the time, actually). How then can you say Christianity is intolerant? Sure, in teh past people did bad things in the name of Christianity. much of the racial ideology last century was carried out in the name of science; do you reject science as well?
I commented tn Hinduism below, so I'll add one last point- what problem do you ahve with hippies?
