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Religious differences offer valuable opportunity
Moving from religious harmony based on tolerance, to acceptance and mutuality, offers a way forward for national cohesion.
When we say something is tolerated, there is often the sub-text that one needs to put up with something negative.
Hence, religious harmony that is based on tolerance implies that people of one religion will have to submit themselves and suffer in silence when encountering differences in other religions, which they may perceive as the "bad stuff".
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