We will be aiming not just for tolerance of one another's views, but toward an empathetic understanding of the many different perspectives on these issues.
Religion asks about the final objects of a person's devotion and loyalty.
Too detached an attitude may cut a person off from the very kinds of experience that are religiously most significant. But such religious commitment can be combined with critical reflection. Commitment without inquiry tends toward fanaticism or narrow dogmatism. Reflection alone without commitment tends to become trivial speculation unrelated to real life.