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COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
How does a person communicate with others? What are his actions, attitudes, and accomplishments? These are what a Scientologist looks at—not race, color, or creed.
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM
Most world religions share a common purpose, whether it’s acknowledging spirituality, encouraging humanitarianism or preaching honesty and integrity. Yet, despite how constructive these may be, a recent report found that attacks on religious liberty have been on the rise.
TOLERANCE
The sad truth is that racial, religious and ethnic hatreds are alive and well in the 21st century and many new crimes are being committed in their names.
TOLERANCE
I agree that hate speech has no place in civil discourse, but when people are afraid to communicate at all about entire subjects because they’re afraid of being labeled as something they aren’t, that climate of fear has its own far-reaching consequences on civil discourse that also tear at the fabric of what it means to live in an open, free society.
SCIENTOLOGY RELIGION
I honestly don’t know how she does it. It takes commitment to be on call the way she is. It takes commitment to travel away from the warmth and comfort of her own home to a place where hurricanes have uprooted families and lives.
TOLERANCE
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” has fallen on hard times in American campuses of late, abandoned amid partisan firefights and outright violence sparked by self-righteous outrage at “offensive” points of view.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
When one has traveled and mingled with the peoples of Earth, one quickly realizes that just about anyone—no matter his or her faith, color or creed—has the same aspirations, the same admiration of beauty, the same quest for happiness.
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
You see, I understand I am just another “nigger,” and you know what is best for me. You deem yourself my Master. You are not my friend.
TOLERANCE
Even if it’s not true—and I believe it is—wouldn’t it make a better world?
COMBATING BIGOTRY & HATE
In an experiment designed to combat hate, Reddit shut down some of their more hateful “subreddits,” or forums dedicated to certain topics. They had no idea what would happen.
