Reply #17: Depends what you mean by "tolerate".

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To the extent that I believe everyone has the right to believe and worship as they choose, I have tolerance for fundamentalists.

To the extent that fundamentalists should be granted the same Constitutional rights as everyone else, not be discriminated against in housing or employment, I have tolerance for fundamentalists.

This is what I'd call "civil tolerance", the kind of tolerance required for freedom in a civil society. My tolerance ends there.

I feel no obligation to "tolerate" fundamentalism if that means never saying an ill word about it, if that means stifling my own freedom of speech because someone might be offended by my criticism of their beliefs, if that means letting my own freedoms be trampled on by religious believers who seek to use the power of the state to further their religious causes where no valid secular interest for government involvement exists.

Tolerance for me does not extend to allowing religious believers to treat their children as private property, ignoring rights and protections children should have beyond what parents may willingly grant them.

My tolerance does not extend to making accommodations for religious belief which go beyond mere accommodation to become facilitation and the granting of special privileges.