Tolerance Is Not Enough... Be Proud of Your Religion

We live in a world where tolerance is a buzz word, where we push messages of peace where Jews should respect Christians and Muslims, where Muslims should respect Jews and Christians and where Christians should do the same.

Is this enough ?

I think the most difficult concept is this theory of tolerance and peace when we rarely tolerate our own religion. Islam is split between fundamentalism and modernisation, Judaism is split between zionism and religion and Christianity is becoming split in all areas. In short the three monotheistic religions are losign their own members. Judaism has a concept called Kiruv (Outreach) to bring jews back into the fold. For Christians there is a new service called Catholic Show a website and regular podcast aiming to being Catholics back to into the arms of the Church.

Every religion should embrace tolerance and this could go some way to creating an understanding of peace, but first we must tolerate our own kind. The Catholic Show goes a some way to promoting this concept and is an example to be set to all other religions.