Religious toleration facts for kids
Religious toleration is when people allow other people to think or practice other religions and beliefs.
In a country with a state religion, toleration means that the government allows other religions to be there. In terms of moral science, you can include religious tolerance and respect, which are the most important parts that are never discussed.
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Images for kids
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Sculpture Für Toleranz ("for tolerance") by Volkmar Kühn, Gera, Germany
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"Tomb with hands" in Roermond. Jacob van Gorcum, a Protestant (of the Reformed Church), who died in 1880 and his wife Josephina, a Catholic, who died in 1888, are buried in the Protestant and Catholic cemeteries respectively, but their tombs are joined by "hands" over the wall.
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Minerva as a symbol of enlightened wisdom protects the believers of all religions (Daniel Chodowiecki, 1791)
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Original act of the Warsaw Confederation 1573 – the official sanctioning of religious freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
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The Maryland Toleration Act, passed in 1649.
See also
In Spanish: Tolerancia religiosa para niños