{"id":2501,"date":"2013-04-01T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T01:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2501"},"modified":"2023-01-23T16:05:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T00:05:32","slug":"new-book-questions-preferential-treatment-of-religious-liberty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2501","title":{"rendered":"(Book Review) Why Tolerate Religion?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Robert Merrihew Adams<\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"148\" height=\"230\" src=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/book-leiter-whytoleratereligion.jpg\" alt=\"Why Tolerate Religion?\" class=\"wp-image-11094\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-light-gray-background-color has-background\">Brian Leiter. Why Tolerate Religion? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012, 192 pp. ISBN: 9780691153612<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Extract<\/strong><br>&#8220;Why tolerate religion?&#8221; The question is raised by someone who thinks there is something wrong about religion as such. To\u00a0<em>tolerate<\/em>, Brian Leiter emphasizes, is to &#8220;put up&#8221; with beliefs or practices that one regards as &#8220;wrong, mistaken, or undesirable&#8221; (p. 8). His paradigm case of principled tolerance is one in which a &#8220;dominant group has the means at its disposal to\u00a0<em>effectively<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>reliably\u00a0<\/em>change or end [a] disfavored group&#8217;s beliefs or practices, and yet . . . acknowledges that there are\u00a0<em>moral<\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0<em>epistemic<\/em>\u00a0reasons . . . to permit the disfavored group to keep on believing and doing what it does&#8221; (p. 13). Forcibly changing or ending religious belief has commonly been extremely difficult or impossible to achieve by any means short of total extermination or banishment of the disfavored group, as history shows, and is therefore a really scary project. With his stated paradigm in mind, we might think that Leiter&#8217;s statement that &#8220;the contemporary problem, at least in the post-Enlightenment secular nations, . . . is why the state should tolerate religion as such at all&#8221; (pp. 14-15), would be ominous indeed if it were an accurate reading of political reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adams RM.  <a href=\"https:\/\/ndpr.nd.edu\/reviews\/why-tolerate-religion\/\">Why Tolerate Religion? <\/a>[Internet]. Notre Dame (IN): University of Notre Dame. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; 2013 Jan 6. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Merrihew Adams Brian Leiter. Why Tolerate Religion? Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012, 192 pp. ISBN: 9780691153612 Extract&#8220;Why tolerate religion?&#8221; The question is raised by someone who thinks there is something wrong about religion as such. To\u00a0tolerate, Brian Leiter emphasizes, is to &#8220;put up&#8221; with beliefs or practices that one regards as &#8220;wrong, mistaken, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.consciencelaws.org\/?p=2501\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;(Book Review) Why Tolerate Religion?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,559,552,720],"tags":[573,1283],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-2501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-law","category-religion","category-religious-freedom","tag-brian-leiter","tag-robert-merrihew-adams"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\r\n<title>(Book Review) Why Tolerate Religion? - 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