Religious tolerance and Ecumenism
1. One has faith in God and, therefore, trusts that His message is also The Truth. That is to say, one should not predicate the attitude of having `faith in’…
Read moreParadox of Tolerating Intolerance
Social issues, inherently, are neither paradoxical any more than they are contradictory. It is the formulation of these issues that gives birth to paradoxes, contradictions and such like. (For the…
Read moreThe religion of secular state: deChristianized Christianity –S.N.Balagangadhara
Assuming that the distinction I proposed between civic tolerance and religious tolerance is acceptable, let us proceed further to analyze the notion of civic tolerance more closely. (I am simply…
Read moreInclusivism, exclusivism, and Ignorance of heathens
Words like “inclusivism”, “exclusivism” etc. are not a part of my terminology. They are not only imprecise but also misleading. They have been used mostly as meta-descriptions of the stance…
Read moreIs tolerant Christianity a contradiction in terms?
1. Even if one insists (wrongly in my view) that I am suggesting that Alex Alexander is not a Christian, there are two ways of looking at the object of…
Read moreReligious intolerance vs. civic intolerance I
1. Today, in countries like England, Belgium, Germany, Italy and the United States, many religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam) and many brands of some of these religions (Catholicism, Protestantism of various…
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