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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Religious Tolerance?

Random Fact: "The pigeons here are about twice the size of pigeons in America. Yes, not a good fact, but it was still shocking."

I'm a Christian, but even I know that religious tolerance is needed. Today I saw a website about "Every Berea Student" and it has some views about different religions (ex. Muslim, Hindu, etc.) that I totally disagree with. I was so angry at how they made the Christian religion seem like the only religion with a loving and caring God that I almost wrote to them. I guess it's all in the matter of how you believe, and while they believe that, I will continue to believe that we need more tolerance of other religions.


Sunderland, at first glance, seems like a Catholic town with all the cathedrals spread around. When I started talking to the people in the town, however, I realized that many of them don't consider themselves to be Catholic Christian or they consider themselves to be atheists or agnostic. There are some Catholics, but they don't get mad about not having enough religion in society. I was also shocked to see so many books about New Age and Pagan religions in bookstores. I think if we did that in America the store would be picketed by extreme Christians.

There's nothing wrong with having a strong faith. But wouldn't it be nice if we could just stop arguing over it and not let it take over politics?