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Religious pluralism is a loosely defined expression concerning acceptance of various religions, and is used in a number of related ways: - As the name of the worldview according to which one's religion is not the sole and exclusive source of truth, and thus that at least some truths and true values exist in other religions. - As acceptance of the concept that two or more religions with mutually exclusive truth claims are equally valid. This posture often emphasizes religion's common aspects. - Sometimes as a synonym for ecumenism, i.e., the promotion of some level of unity, co-operation, and improved understanding between different religions or different denominations within a single religion. - As term for the condition of harmonious co-existence between adherents of different religions or religious denominations.
Religious pluralism, to paraphrase the title of a recent academic work, goes beyond mere toleration. Chris Beneke, in Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism, explains the difference between religious tolerance and religious pluralism by pointing to the situation in the late 18th century United States. By the 1730s, in most colonies religious minorities had obtained what contemporaries called religious toleration: "The policy of toleration relieved religious minorities of some physical punishments and some financial burdens, but it did not make them free from the indignities of prejudice and exclusion. Nor did it make them equal. Those 'tolerated' could still be barred from civil offices, military positions, and university posts." In short, religious toleration is only the absence of religious persecution, and does not necessarily preclude religious discrimination. However, in the following decades something extraordinary happened in the Thirteen Colonies, at least if one views the events from "a late eighteenth-century perspective." Gradually the colonial governments expanded the policy of religious toleration, but then, between the 1760s and the 1780s, they replaced it with "something that is usually called religious liberty."
Freedom of religion encompasses all religions acting within the law in a particular region, whether or not an individual religion accepts that other religions are legitimate or that freedom of religious choice and religious plurality in general are good things. Exclusivist religions teach that theirs is the only way to salvation and to religious truth, and some of them would even argue that it is necessary to suppress the falsehoods taught by other religions. Some Protestant sects argue fiercely against Roman Catholicism, and fundamentalist Christians of all kinds teach that religious practices like those of paganism and witchcraft are pernicious. This was a common historical attitude prior to the Enlightenment, and has appeared as governmental policy into the present day under systems like Afghanistan's Taliban regime, which destroyed the ancient Buddhas of Bamyan.
Many religious believers believe that religious pluralism should entail not competition but cooperation, and argue that societal and theological change is necessary to overcome religious differences between different religions, and denominational conflicts within the same religion. For most religious traditions, this attitude is essentially based on a non-literal view of one's religious traditions, hence allowing for respect to be engendered between different traditions on fundamental principles rather than more marginal issues. It is perhaps summarized as an attitude which rejects focus on immaterial differences, and instead gives respect to those beliefs held in common.
Giving one religion or denomination special rights that are denied to others can weaken religious pluralism. This situation obtains in certain European countries, where Roman Catholicism or regional forms of Protestantism have special status. For example see the entries on the Lateran Treaty and Church of England
Relativism, the belief that all religions are equal in their value and that none of the religions gives access to absolute truth, is an extreme form of inclusivism. Likewise, syncretism, the attempt to take over creeds of practices from other religions or even to blend practices or creeds from different religions into one new faith is an extreme form of inter-religious dialogue. Syncretism must not be confused with ecumenism, the attempt to bring closer and eventually reunite different denominations of one religion that have a common origin but were separated by a schism.
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Ethnic Diversity in America's Heartlandby worldnewsamerica1,449 views
Every rape that has occurred in Oslo Norway in the last 3 years was committed by a non-White immigrant. Go tell all of those rape victims how diversity is a strength and how it has enriched their lives.
Diversity is just a codeword for White genocide. Diversity is ONLY taking place in White countries.
Google Horus the Avenger White Rabbit radio to lean more about what you can do to fight White genocide.
ClutchFan1971 8 months ago
@CRAPCANNONS Racism comes in different forms, and you don't have to be a flag burning white gown wearing redneck to be one.
phantomsuccour 11 months ago
@CRAPCANNONS Oh, please, like that means anything. Plenty of people in the south listened to such music and were still happy enough to go to the community lynching, or happily voted for the sheriffs that perpetrated crimes against blacks. So no, you having Jazz on your playlist and a few great black artists doesn't make you tolerant. That's like the minister in Louisiana that refused to marry an interracial couple and said he wasn't racist because he let blacks into his home.
phantomsuccour 11 months ago
@phantomsuccour
Right.
A white supremacist with a JAZZ playlist and Dizzy Gillespie and Sweet Emma Barrett in his favorites.
You're hopelessly lost.
CRAPCANNONS 11 months ago
@CRAPCANNONS and as always the youtube troll uses every opportunity to insult, and abuse. You are an angry white supremacist hateful and crazy and people like you that enjoy hate and all that comes with it will be defeated. So please keep on trolling youtube, like your other brethren, but know that you will eventually fail!
phantomsuccour 11 months ago
@phantomsuccour
1942? My goodness your mind is an unmitigated mess, isn't it.
You don't know anything about history or geography. Whites were always the minority worldwide. Yet they still run everything. Why? Because of race-obsessed shitheads like you who are more focused on skin-color than anything else and you don't see what's being done to you. That's why you took the bait in the first place.
You probably even think decolonialism actually occurred pfff
Great video taste btw, you twat.
CRAPCANNONS 11 months ago
@CRAPCANNONS you can keep on making your disaproving comments of anyone that isn't white like you. But guess what? The proportion of whites is reducing in America and they won't be a majority in 1942, so either prepare to go to Idaho, get over it, or start a futile war.
phantomsuccour 11 months ago
@CRAPCANNONS as I said before, go back to sleep troll, no need to debate with a bigot.
phantomsuccour 11 months ago
@phantomsuccour
great video taste by the way you drooly ponce
CRAPCANNONS 11 months ago
@phantomsuccour
Any evidence of that, genius? Or is that just another one of those words your type throws around so easily to shut down debate?
Do you even know what a racist is, genius?
Please continue. You're simply hilarious.
CRAPCANNONS 11 months ago