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Toleration

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John Locke on Toleration

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Essential John Locke: Religious Tolerance

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Maryland Toleration Act Explained

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Juice Wrld - Zero Toleration (Unreleased)

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The Necessity of Religious Toleration

Toleration is the acceptance of an action, object, or person which one dislikes or disagrees with, where one is in a position to disallow it but chooses not to. It has also been defined as "to bear or endure" or "to nourish, sustain or preserve" or as "a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward those whose opinions, beliefs, practices, racial or ethnic origins, etc., differ from one's own; freedom from bigotry" too. Toleration may signify "no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful."
    • Etymology 

    • In antiquity 

    • Biblical sources 

    • In the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Reformation 

    • In the Enlightenment 

    • In the nineteenth century 

    • In the twentieth century 

    • In other religions 

    • Tolerance and digital technologies 

    • Modern analyses and critiques