ACCEPTANCE VS. TOLERANCE

All roads lead to Rome if your destination is Rome.  All religious sects and denominations lead to God if your destination is God.

Swami Vivekananda was making the point that we should “accept” and not just “tolerate” other religious points of view.

The goal is the important thing, he said.  If God is your goal and you are contemplating Him with that intention, it will lead you to Him.  All religions, if properly understood, have that same one goal, to realize God.

It is best to accept other religions this way.  Merely “tolerating” them means that you alone have the truth, that you only endure other religions.