{"id":482,"date":"2018-12-26T19:54:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=482"},"modified":"2018-12-26T19:54:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:54:03","slug":"religions-tolerance-and-tolerance-of-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/26\/religions-tolerance-and-tolerance-of-religion\/","title":{"rendered":"Religions&#8217; tolerance and tolerance of religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/6\/6e\/Voodo-altar.jpg\/320px-Voodo-altar.jpg\" alt=\"voodoo\" width=\"261\" height=\"174\" \/>Religions are not typically too terribly tolerant of one another. But societies and laws should be tolerant, and that includes tolerance of religions &#8212; if not of their intolerance.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy of 9\/11 was the result of a religion&#8217;s intolerance. It must not be responded to in kind. Either all religious institutions and symbols are banned from the site, or all are allowed.<\/p>\n<p>President Obama is right (again).<\/p>\n<p>(If it weren&#8217;t for the sensitivities of the believers among the victims&#8217; families, I&#8217;d be for banning all cults from the site!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religions are not typically too terribly tolerant of one another. But societies and laws should be tolerant, and that includes tolerance of religions &#8212; if not of their intolerance. The tragedy of 9\/11 was the result of a religion&#8217;s intolerance. It must not be responded to in kind. Either all religious institutions and symbols are &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2018\/12\/26\/religions-tolerance-and-tolerance-of-religion\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Religions&#8217; tolerance and tolerance of religion&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}