6 sentences with “intolerant”

Regional governors were dismissed if they were so harsh or intolerant that their subjects rose up in rebellion.

Thus, in the future, European Christianity itself became harsher, more intolerant and more warlike because of the Crusades.

Also like Louis XIV, James II practised a strict and intolerant form of Roman Catholicism after converting from Protestantism in the late 1660s.

Third, there was a new preoccupation with a particularly intolerant form of religious purity among many European Christians during and after the Crusades.

In a sense, the very idea of a permanent break with Rome was difficult for many people, certainly many priests, to conceive. However, after 1550, when it became clear that the break was permanent, the Church itself became much harsher and more intolerant.

In principle, the problem of tolerance only arises when there are certain convictions that make something intolerant to those convictions, but tolerance and intolerance are only effectively practised when power is exercised over those who disagree with us and is exercised to coerce the contrary.