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If we can all be a little more understanding, forgiving, loving,...this world would be a lot better place.

But we tend to measure others based on our own standards.  That's the human nature.

We all have different opinions, I dont judge people by beeing different. because we all come from a different background. 

Religion forces many to think less of another. I still say organized religion should be outlawed. I've spent a great many typing hours here defending my life from another's opinion based on their religious teachings. Why does a religion I do not follow tell me, love the sinner but hate the sin? Why does a religion that I do not follow tell me I'm a sinner?  This should answer your question, "why is it so hard for people to accept someone who thinks differently than they do?" Because I can not accept the way that person thinks of  me or my life. We could never be friends because of it. Religion drives a wedge between us.

What a great question, Daisy! 

Perhaps tolerance comes with age, or circumstances (nothing has been "under my control" for almost 10 years).  I used to have everything "my way" (at least on the surface), and I had to be right all the time.  There just wasn't room for dissention or anyone having an opinion that didn't support mine.  That involved being at war with alot of people most of the time.

It is so much easier to tolerate other people's opinions and values, to let an argument evaporate instead of fueling a fire.  It's OK to not have everyone agreeing with me; it's OK to have a difference of opinion and not delegate someone as being WRONG.  It's OK to agree to disagree, and, often, when you consider another's opinion, you can understand how he might have come to that conclusion.  It's OK to compromise, and it's OK to just let someone else have it his way (as long as it doesn't compromise my morals, in which case I bow out completely).

Tolerance goes both ways, so I find others being more tolerant of my idiocracies (I made up that word just now).  The funny thing is, when I started embracing my faith and putting more time and effort into being more Christian (my chosen faith), my life really got more peaceful....and so did I.  And so did everyone around me.  Yaaaaaa GOD.

Mostly it's the fanatical christians on this site. I have never heard such drivel and bigotry in all my life.

because they're not interested in anything past the end of their nose

How silly of  Messenger to think, if we were all Muslims, we be dead now. ( How did you work that out ?) I feel there is Racialism with some people here. Although Islam differs in some respects from Chrisianity and Judaism, the God they all worship is the same. Like  Catholic ,and Church of England, our belives differ a bit, does not make ANY of us, less in face of God.

Maybbe it is hard for some people to accept someone who acts, and thinks differently to them, because they think , they are better and their belief is right, due to been narrow minded. I dont judge people .I accept what they are. Each of us get judged on last day. I will be judged on my life, not theirs.

Colleen

Now see? This to me is a problem. You first say how some people think they are better than the rest, and then you make the grand statement the WE all get judged on our final day. I do not agree or believe that God judges but you think it's OK to speak in such a broad manner that includes all people like everyone agrees with this idea that covers only your God. Is this the same as:
"they are better and their belief is right, due to been narrow minded."?
I find it hard to accept opinions that cast me in a religion I do not believe in.

Colleen

Thanks for clearing that up. I was going by "each of us", thought it was all inclusive for the human race. I do believe in God, just not the same way you do.

If you can come up with that formula, you've stopped all hate and ended all wars.

It is not a bad thing to listen to what others have to say and different points of view, at the least bigoted ideas can be challenged.  It would be a boring world if we all thought the same way, Everyone has a right to express their view providing they do not incite hatred, harm, racism or compound discrimination against minority groups. As Voltaire puts it (in support of freedom of speach) " I may not agree with what you have to say but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

Colleen

" I may not agree with what you have to say but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

Good for Voltaire but I refuse to defend bigoted statements. Those people can be hanged.

If we all thought the same, This would be a very Dull world.

Colleen

If we thought a little more alike, there would be less wars and less social violence. Bigotry might even disappear ;)

Colleen

I don't get, "we would be (dead) by now." Not all Muslims are dead.