Isn't it curious that these two things are linked. First, what does it mean to accept one another. Acceptance is going a step further than tolerance.
Tolerance has a distance in it.
I may tolerate you, without truly accepting you. This is what happens in our congregations when someone says something quite different from what I believe, and in response I roll my eyes, as if to say, oh boy here he goes again with that crazy stuff. Sometimes it's a Christian speaking to an atheist. And sometimes it's a Humanist speaking to a pagan. I experienced this challenge last week as my family made preparation for and attended my mother's funeral.