both be right is an impetus to engage in meaningful dialogue. Dialogue thus becomes an opportunity for both sides to gain understanding, reexamine presuppositions, and clarify positions.4 True tolerance grants people the right to dissent. Now, we don’t have to respect all views to be tolerant. For example, I don’t respect the belief that morality is relative. Nevertheless, we must show respect for the image-of-God-bearing persons who happen to hold those perspectives. Again, Christians criticized
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