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I’ve never realized the toxicity of the idea of “tolerance”. Tolerance had good intentions in the beginning. It started because people wanted to have peace among different religions and halt the fighting and aggression. …

Prior to this lesson, I was aware of Islamophobia in the U.S. I was born in 2000 so I was only around a year old when 9/11 happened but I always remembered growing up around grade school “remember 9/11, we will never forget, never forget” type of statements whenever the…

You would think that by learning more about religion and the different ones there are to offer, we would become more “tolerant” or at least become open minded to try to understand the others religion. However we learned that this is not the case. We do not become more tolerant even when learning the study of religion, and it is clear through today’s society. In the article by Jackson and Pellegrini, they mention how tolerance is not perceived as it should be. When we think of tolerance it is being open minded and more tolerant towards one another, but it is now seen as hierarchical and nondemocratic. We are actually running in the opposite direction and away from true freedom.

During this lesson, I think I will learn about tolerance for religion/within religion and or lack thereof. We watched a video that raised the question of whether religion and morality went hand in hand. No, being religious does not correlate to how moral a person might be or not be, and “righteousness” does not stem from religion. I do believe learning about things you didn’t know does give you a different perspective on them. When you’re ignorant about something, it gives room for wrong ideas and stereotypes, and it can be easier to become intolerant about things you’re unaware of. Therefore, I think that learning about religion makes you more tolerant. However, the professor said that the answer was no; learning about religion does not make one more tolerant of it.

First of all, congratulations on signing up for this course. It has been one of my favorites and even made me choose to minor in religious studies. The professor is super cool and you’re going to learn so much about religions and how they work. When you first start this…

What strategies worked for me: When I knew I did not have the time to sit down and read I used the speech function of my laptop. A lot of the times we had 30–40 page readings as one of six parts of homework. I did my best to skim…

Thursday August 26, 2021 The information I have on ‘religion’ are not facts but only assumptions. I assumed you have to go to church/temple/mass. I assumed you need to read a text. I assumed you need to believe in some god or deity. I assumed religion is practiced the same…

New and Invented Religions is still a new concept to me. I feel as if I’m still learning about older religions and how they shaped and affected culture, so the idea of new and invented religions is foreign to me. Before this class, I had no thoughts or opinions on…

I feel that similarly to antisemitism, I have a fairly firm grasp of the concept of Islamophobia, however, I expect that this lesson will bring up some hidden or not-so-hidden aspects that I hadn’t even thought to consider. …