The need for religious tolerance cannot be over stretched. Most of the killings done in the name of religion are as a result of lack of religious tolerance. For instance if some persons decided to provoke you by praying in front of your shop or choose to preach near your prayer house and you ignore them rather than confronting them, they may eventually get tired and change their mind. In the end your attitude can touch their hearts and you might become friends. We mortals should not fight for the immortal God.

In the holy books, God after given you the commission to go and preach the gospel told you to expect persecution and tribulations, but that the battle is not yours but His.
Most of you are in your current faith/religion because you were born into it, so you shouldn't crucify others who were also 'victims' by birth.

Many people only grew up to realize the 'complexity' of the religion they inherited but can hardly do anything about it. Overtime, only very few had the courage to filter the traditional methods of doing things in their inherited religion. This has given birth to divisions in the two popular religions. In Christian religion for instance, there are several denominations worldwide. So also is Islam religion, there are different factions like ISIS, Boko Haram, Sheikh, etc.
Human choices vary because of your unique genes, so even if you were to choose your religion, individual choices will definitely differ.

To this end, tolerance is the only potent medicine for religious provocation. You need to learn to tolerate people's excesses when it comes to religion. You cannot win someone's heart by being forceful and violent but by showing love and understanding. Remember you were first human before you realize there's a religion. Needless to mention that no one can fight for God because He is the almighty.

Finally, if you cannot show love and care to your fellow being how then do you claim to love God whom you do not see. Undoubtedly, the world will be a better place if you put aside religious and ethnic differences and relate with one another as humans because it is an established fact that terrorism has no religion.

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