Sentence examples for for toleration from inspiring English sources

He provided every argument for toleration he could, and still he wasn't tolerated.

By Adam Gopnik Galileo facing the Inquisition: he provided every argument for toleration he could, and still the Church couldn't tolerate him.

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It is anachronistic, I believe, to portray the appeals for toleration made by Tertullian, a second-century Christian, or by Jews earlier, as anything like the Enlightenment principle of the separation of politics and religion.

Though the need for toleration is perfectly general, because of America's divided history and his own family background, Mr Rawls felt its demands with unusual acuity.He was born to a wealthy, professional family from Maryland, a slave-owning border state that stayed in the Union during the civil war.

Mill offers three main arguments for toleration.

He was famous for declaring toleration for conquered peoples, rather than oppressing them, and for freeing the Hebrew captives in Babylonia and allowing them to return to their homeland.

Bayle's plea for religious toleration (even for atheists) eventually convinced Jurieu that Bayle was an atheist in disguise.

George W. Truett added, "Our contention is not for mere toleration but for absolute liberty" (Truett, 63).

In his On the Spirit of the Laws (1748), Montesquieu argues for the toleration of different religions for the purpose of preserving political unity and peace, yet he warns that there is a limit to the acceptance of new religions or changes to the dominant one, given the connection between a constitution and the morality and habits of a people.

It stood for rational inquiry, for skepticism about dogma and mystery, and for religious toleration.