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“Any belief system that is based on fear, encourages weakness, sanctions intolerance threatens vengeance, promotes passivity and requires you to relinquish your personal power is doing you a disservice.”

Belief Weakness Intolerance Vengeance Sanctions Doing You Belief Systems Personal Power Passivity Disservice

Author:Walt F. J. Goodridge

“The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.”

Source: On Liberty: Mill's Works

“One of the most constant characteristics of beliefs is their intolerance. The stronger the belief, the greater its intolerance. Men dominated by a certitude cannot tolerate those who do not accept it.”

Men Belief Accepting Greater Atheism Stronger Constant Positive Atheism Characteristics Intolerance Tolerate Certitude

Book:Gustave Le Bon, the man and his works: a presentation with introduction, first translations into English, and edited extracts

Source: Gustave Le Bon, the man and his works: a presentation with introduction, first translations into English, and edited extracts

“One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.”

Want Christian Values Belief Religious Practice One Thing Intolerance Reprieve

Author:Ronald H. Nash

“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.”

World Ends Belief Religious This World Racist Satire Bigotry Intolerance Religious Belief Religious Intolerance Political Satire

Author:Isaac Hayes

“Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.”

Littles Different Christian Spirit Hate Order Belief Loses Kings Errors Jew Dues France Attachment Intolerance Persecution Spain Advancement Zeal Animated Expulsion

Author:Baron de Montesquieu