Promoting religious understanding, tolerance and freedom.

This is a large religious web site which promotes religious freedom, tolerance and diversity as positive cultural values. The site contains over 2,500 essays and menus. But it is very different from almost all other religious sites:

	We do not promote our own religious beliefs. We can't because we are a multi-faith group. We try to explain the full range of religious belief in North America, from Asatru to Christianity to Zoroastrianism.
	We report on controversial religious topics, from abortion access to equal rights and protections for homosexuals and bisexuals including same-sex marriage (our most popular topic). We try to explain all sides to each topic fairly and objectively.

You will find much in this site that you will agree with, and much to disagree with. Enjoy!

SOME THOUGHTS:

Religious Tolerance means
to extend religious freedom to people of all religions, even though you disagree with their beliefs and/or practices.

Religious freedom means to have the right to
believe, worship and witness;
change one's belief or religion; and
join together and express one's belief ₁

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Our site mandate:
"To promote religious tolerance and freedom.
To describe religious faiths in all their diversity.
To describe controversial topics from all points of view."

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Our motto:
"No peace among the nations without peace among the religions.
No peace among religions without dialogue between the religions.
No dialogue between the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions." ₂

Web site news:

	We would like to thank an anonymous donor
	We lost track of an essay. We were in the middle of editing a file, were interrupted, and now cannot recall which one it was. If you spot a partly completed menu or essay, please inform us by Email. :-(
	We now have a part-time "Person Friday" who handles much of our administrative load. This frees the rest of us to do more research and write more essays. The downside of this is that our costs have increased significantly. If you can make a one-time donation via Credit card, PayPal, or check -- or donate a small amount each month -- we would really appreciate it.
	As of 2004-JUN-15 we have 2,536 essays and menus online. We are systematically reviewing and upgrading ten a day until the entire site is covered. This will reduce our capacity to write new essays, but will increase the quality of our existing essays.

About us, and about this web site: Recommended books, Message board, New essays, Visitor's comments (only for the strong of stomach), Visitor's essays, Awards received, Intolerance awards given, How this site differs, About us, Our financial needs, Website news, Traffic stats, Privacy statement, Web site errata, © Copyright and legal notices, Misc. tidbits, Printing essays, About those pesky banner ads. Short introductory notes: Your first visit?, Religious tolerance is important, Religious trends
About world religions: Background information: About God, Basic data about religions, Glossary of religious terms, Links to religious sites, Religious quotes, How religions developed, Source of religious hatred, Holy days..... Descriptions of individual religions: from Asatru to Zoroastrianism including: Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Satanism, Taoism, Wicca..... Cults (a.k.a. New Religious Movements): Attitudes to other religions, General info, Counter-cult & Anti-cult movement, Dangerous cults, Groups targeted as cults..... Comparing different religions and faith groups Christianity & Islam, Various wings of Protestantism, Conservative Protestantism& Catholicism.....
About topics linked to religion: Science & religion: Active conflicts: overview, evolution & creation science, Religion evaluating science, Science evaluating religion..... Spirituality: Find a faith group for yourself, Peace, Religious tolerance, Spiritual activities..... Morals & ethics: Denial of human rights, Employment discrimination, Human slavery, Treatment of Natives, War..... Essays on important topics: Absolute morality, Absolute truth, Holy days, Religiously motivated wars, 911 terrorism, What is tolerance?.....
About religion and society: Examples of religious intolerance, hatred, and conflict: Basic info, In various countries, In North America, 9-11, Ritual Abuse, Victims of therapy..... Really high profile, "hot" topics: Abortion, Homosexuality, Same-sex marriage, Same-sex marriage in Canada, Ten Commandments, Wicca..... Many more "hot" topics: Assisted suicide, Cloning, Death penalty, Nudism, Female genital mutilation, All aspects of sex, Spanking..... Religious laws Overview, Church-state separation, Human rights, U.S. laws..... Religious news: Events showing intolerance, Events showing tolerance, Events on other topics, Religious news feed, Other news feeds.
Buy this site on a CD	References used: Paraphrased from Forum 18 at: http://www.forum18.org Taken from the writings of Hans Küng

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