History of Christianity Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ====Tolerance==== Debate on whether peace required allowing only one faith and punishing heretics, or if ancient opinions defending leniency, (based on the [[parable of the tares]]), should be revived, began to occupy every version of the Christian faith.{{sfn|Mout|2007|p=229}} Radical Protestants steadfastly sought toleration for heresy, blasphemy, [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholicism]], non-Christian religions, and even [[atheism]].{{sfn|Coffey|1998|p=961}} Anglicans and other Christian moderates also wrote and argued for toleration.{{sfn|Coffey|2014|p=12}} [[Deism]] emerged, and in the 1690s, following debates that started in the 1640s, a non-Christian third group also advocated for religious toleration.{{sfn|Patterson|1997|p=64}}{{sfn|Mout|2007|pp=227β233; 242}} It became necessary to rethink on a political level, all of the State's reasons for persecution.{{sfn|Mout|2007|p=229}} Over the next two and a half centuries, many treaties and political declarations of tolerance followed, until concepts of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and freedom of thought became established in most western countries.{{sfn|Mout|2007|pp=225β243}}{{sfn|Kaplan|2009|p=119}}{{sfn|Franck|1997|pp=594β595}} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page