Can an ardent theist be religiously tolerant?
Let me suggest a basis here for something like that. It is plain to me that human minds are incapable of grasping the full truth of the universe. We can even prove mathematically that truths can be formally beyond proof. Whatever truth each of us possesses is only a little snippet of the whole truth, and probably mixed with distortions and errors just because of our limited view of everything. It is also plain to me that perfect communication between people is impossible. About anything important, save for a few truths so simple that they can be proven, no two humans believe quite the same thing, even if they use the same words to express it. Words simply aren’t capable of completely translating thoughts, and agreement is never more than approximate. The only way for two people to agree perfectly is for one to let the other do all the thinking. From these observations, and the belief that God made us this way, it seems clear that we are not at all intended to believe the same thing, an
