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>i think you missed Carrol's first point which is an important one, if true:
>religious tolerance was a non-western value initially.
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If you want to be particular about it, the Romans practiced religious tolerance towards everyone but the Jews and Christians, at least on their home territories, and they made an exceptrion of them not because these peoples had bizzare religions, but because they were troublemakers.
jks
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