Now I haven't been religious since I was a teenager, so my understanding of religious people's POV is all rather hypothetical. (My personal taste is for as little of the religious/spiritual in my life as possible, regardless of whether or not it belongs to any specific religion :))
But I think a lot of people want their cultural forms to be strongly linked to their systematized systems of belief, and would feel uncomfortable and incomplete using the forms of a different tradition, even if they don't have issues with that religion in particular (e.g. the way untrue_accounts does with christianity) This does depend on where the traditions on the continuum between Sacred Rite (like holy communion) and cultural habit loosely associated with religion (like a church fete) and differs strongly from person to person, but I don't think it's purely a function of intolerance. Some people just seem to engage best with religion via consistent, specific tradition, and do not engage with the forms of other beliefs at all, even if they respect them.
I mean, I could be wrong. The nature of religion in modern society has changed dramatically in the past, perhaps one day there will be more of a disconnect between the core beliefs of a religion and the forms that express it, and more fluidity between different faiths. Personally I'm holding out for the day everyone else becomes an atheist, but I think that's even more unlikely :D
Problems with pluralism (reply 2)
Now I haven't been religious since I was a teenager, so my understanding of religious people's POV is all rather hypothetical. (My personal taste is for as little of the religious/spiritual in my life as possible, regardless of whether or not it belongs to any specific religion :))
But I think a lot of people want their cultural forms to be strongly linked to their systematized systems of belief, and would feel uncomfortable and incomplete using the forms of a different tradition, even if they don't have issues with that religion in particular (e.g. the way
I mean, I could be wrong. The nature of religion in modern society has changed dramatically in the past, perhaps one day there will be more of a disconnect between the core beliefs of a religion and the forms that express it, and more fluidity between different faiths. Personally I'm holding out for the day everyone else becomes an atheist, but I think that's even more unlikely :D