Tolerance stops at the intersection of belief and personal moral systems and global accepted "norms" or rights issues.

We must respect people with different views. We must also stand firm if those beliefs do not benefit us all / are cruel or abusive. By that i don't mean benefit in a personal preference sense but a fundamental rights sense. Like persecution through willful or learned ignorance for example. You have to challenge that where you can.

Interestingly you talk about a religious "crutch". Isn't religion the injury and logic and reason the crutch that can allow you to drop the crippling injury known as delusional religious belief based on rumour and an old storybook ?

I would say the crutch is reason - religion is a festering old scabby puss filled wound and once you gain enough confidence in reason you no longer need the crutch, and not only wouldn't notice the crutch was ever there, but would hopefully forget you ever had one, being so much better without. Religion is a wound not a crutch in my opinion.

I don't get involved

Nonsense. I respect your right to have beliefs but if they're stupid or harmful I will point out that fact. Letting idiots BELIEVE whatever stupidity they're into and giving said idiocy validity in the name of respect does no one any favors. I refuse to "respect" wilful ignorance or lunacy.

This feels like a logical fallacy. To be sure there are beliefs of others that we don’t have to respect. Do I have to respect the beliefs of flat earthers? Chem trailers? Anti Vaxxer’s? What about the the beliefs of sexual attraction to children?

If a someone from another part of the world feels it’s rightoeus to stone a person to death for infidelity, am I just supposed to respect that?

This idea that all beliefs are equal, and everyone is entitled to theirs without be challenged on it... its part of the problem we find ourselves in.

It depends on the actions one carries out in the name of those beliefs. I don't have a problem with Christians. I have a problem with assholes.

Is it the US Republican party that is intolerant of other peoples’ opinions? Are they the ones who are refusing to listen to other points of view? Are they the ones who break windows or start fires in protest of one speaker or another?

Thanks for this. I heard a quote this morning: “Outrage is moral junk food. Not nourishing but feels good in the moment.”

I relate to how easy it is to shame, shun or eviscerate others and their beliefs. Constructive dialogue is harder bc it requires encounter and presence and empathy.

I lived in Charlottesville during the Nazi rally where a protestor was hit and killed. The prevailing wisdom there since has been there’s no tolerance for hate speech. I agree wholeheartedly. And Even that refusal to condone can be packaged in love and empathy. As you point out, it must be, or we become the hate speech.