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practices accurately represented in this website. Hopefully, reading about the
diversity of religious beliefs, worldviews, and systems of morality in the U.S.
and Canada should be of interest to you.
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ReligiousTolerance.org
This website is unlike almost all other religious sites:
We try to describe all viewpoints on controversial
religious topics objectively and fairly. We cover a broad range of topics, from
whether women should have access to
abortion to whether
homosexuals and bisexuals should be given equal
rights, including
same-sex marriage, and dozens of
other "hot" topics.
Definitions, mandate, etc.
On this site, religious tolerance means:
To extend religious freedom to people of all religious
traditions, even though you may well disagree with their beliefs and/or
practices. Having tolerance toward another religion does not require you to
endorse that faith group's beliefs; it simply indicates your respect for its
right to exist and
for its membership to hold different beliefs without being oppressed.
Religious tolerance does
not require you:
To accept all religions as equally true.
Religious freedom means that you can:
Without oppression, believe, worship and witness (or
practice freedom from belief, worship and witness), as you wish;
Change your beliefs or your religion; and/or
Associate with others to express your beliefs.1
Our site mandate is to:
"Promote religious tolerance and freedom;
Objectively describe religious faiths in all their diversity; and
Objectively describe controversial topics from all viewpoints."
Our motto:
"Study of the world's religions will lead to an understanding of religious diversity.
This understanding can lead to inter-religious dialogue.
Dialogue may lead to peace among religions.
Peace among religions would lead to peace among nations." 2
An observation:
"When some people deviate from reality, others are
often hurt."
A saying by Mahatma Gandhi:
"The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and
tolerance of the devotees of the different religions.
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MSN is 8. This site was 7. In early 2008-JAN, they dropped our
"importance" in half to 4. We hear rumors that that they have treated all
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amazed that such a tiny ad on fewer than 1% of our pages reduce our site's "importance" so much.
Financial problems. Our web site's contingency fund was
almost exhausted. Our number of visitors dropped to a low level during the
annual Christmas/New Years slump in traffic. We are having difficulty meeting
the payroll commitment to our one part-time employee. If you believe in religious tolerance and understanding, will you please
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appreciate it.
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Attacks on our site: We are continually fending off attacks on our
website by a person or persons unknown. So far, all but one have involved
essays dealing with abortion, access, equal
rights for homosexuals or The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There have been at least
two denial of service attacks. Their latest technique seems to involve the
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that appears to have come from us, please ignore it.
Site metrics: During the week ending 2007-DEC-08, traffic on this
website reached a high for 2007/2008 to date. It handled 10.6 million hits, 1.9
million page views, 108 Gigabytes of traffic, and 490,798 visitors. The number of hits is an almost
meaningless number. However, webmasters delight in quoting them because they are
so large.
Upgrading:
On 2008-JUN-07 we placed our 4,320th essay online. We are
systematically reviewing and upgrading some each 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.
The six religions chosen for these navigation
bars include the three largest faiths in North American and the three most
visited faiths on our web site.
Page Rank: Google ranks web sites according to their perception of
the site's "importance." They rated themselves as 10 out of 10; Yahoo is 9;
MSN is 8. This site was 7. In early 2008-JAN, they dropped our
"importance" in half to 4. We hear rumors that that they have treated all
web sites with paid text ads (like the text ads above ^) in this way. We are
amazed that such a tiny ad on fewer than 1% of our pages reduce our site's "importance" so much.
Site metrics: During the week ending 2007-DEC-08, traffic on this
website reached a high for 2007/2008 to date. It handled 10.6 million hits, 1.9
million page views, 108 Gigabytes of traffic, and 490,798 visitors. The number of hits is an almost
meaningless number. However, webmasters delight in quoting them because they are
so large.
