Essays on Religious Tolerance

Religious tolerance is a term that creates an umbrella of topics. Religion and politics are said to be separate entities, but when the government bases their principles on the separation of church and state, it is automatically concluding that religion is so prominent in our...

Although many people came to America seeking religious freedom, it seems as though they were really looking for the freedom to practice their own religion. In reality, almost all of the colonies were chartered to practice religions that they could not practice in Europe. The...

Should religion be taught in public schools? How will parents take this? In my opinion, its best that religion doesn’t enter public schools because of the controversy and media outrage that can stir up. Starting with one point of view, there are many reasons why...

Islam is a religion of compassion, it does not divide people based on their cast or color, and it advises all people should be treated as equals. This is something that the Prophet himself was standing up for during his time of spreading the message...

RELIGION AND THEOLOGY The concept of sacredness begs a flurry of difficult questions. The complexity is further compounded by the varying views of sacredness between cultures (Hubert 1994). Sacredness is not an isolated quality but forms a web of interconnectivity that binds together all components...

A child raised by a Buddhist mother and a Christian father may cause some confusion to him or her in what is real, what is right, and what is wrong. Growing up, there might not be any religion enforced upon the child. If the parents...