The first war of religion started in 1562, in France, because one man, Louis de Condé wanted the kingdom to be protestant rather than catholic. However, the catholic didn’t agree and decided to start a war against the protestant. Since this date, a thousand of religious war happened and have killed millions of people.
For example, the Syrian conflict started has a movement for democracy in 2011, but Bashar al Assad didn’t accept his people to be free. After a while, Daesh, the Islamic state, came into the conflict and fought against everyone who were not following the same religion as them, what they call “original Islam”. According to them, every other religion is devil: They want to the entire world become like them, but they can’t change everyone’s opinion. They just kill people for being themselves and having their own believes and reject what makes the beauty of our world, our differences! That means that they are anything but tolerant.
Indeed, the respect of each other religion is one of the characteristics which makes someone tolerant. But to be entirely tolerant you have to:
- Accept everyone’s differences
- Respect the other’s opinion
- Be open minded and empathic