Quote from: EthBooksPro on July 09, 2017, 10:30:27 AM

It completely pisses me off every time a few friends from a certain religion try to give me reasons why I should convert to their super 'holy' religion. The world will be so much better to live in once people from different religions learn to tolerate each other.

I can't imagine religions ever tolerating each other

Most religions have texts with words like:

Quote from: The "holy" bible

Deuteronomy 17:12 - Anyone arrogant enough to reject the verdict of the judge or of the priest who represents the LORD your God must be put to death. Such evil must be purged from Israel

Exodus 22:19 - Whoever sacrifices to any god, except the Lord alone, shall be doomed

Zechariah 13:3 - If a man still prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall say to him, You shall not live, because you have spoken a lie in the name of the Lord. When he prophesies, his parents, father and mother, shall thrust him through

Deuteronomy 13:7-12 - If your own full brother, or your son or daughter, or your beloved wife, or you intimate friend, entices you secretly to serve other gods, whom you and your fathers have not known, gods of any other nations, near at hand or far away, from one end of the earth to the other: do not yield to him or listen to him, nor look with pity upon him, to spare or shield him, but kill him. Your hand shall be the first raised to slay him; the rest of the people shall join in with you. You shall stone him to death, because he sought to lead you astray from the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, that place of slavery. And all Israel, hearing of this, shall fear and never do such evil as this in your midst.

Deuteronomy 17:2-5 - Suppose a man or woman among you, in one of your towns that the LORD your God is giving you, has done evil in the sight of the LORD your God and has violated the covenant by serving other gods or by worshiping the sun, the moon, or any of the forces of heaven, which I have strictly forbidden. When you hear about it, investigate the matter thoroughly. If it is true that this detestable thing has been done in Israel, then that man or woman must be taken to the gates of the town and stoned to death.

The bible is pretty straight-forward... god commands his followers to murder non-believers in at least 100 different places in the bible

With words like this in their "holy book", it is difficult for religions to "tolerate each other"