CULTURE OF TOLERANCE

Religion in the Workplace: How Diversity Creates Better Cultures

After I’d been working there for a few days, the CEO called me into his office and said “You know, I really admired the way you were honest with me about your beliefs. You took a risk, and that takes guts. We need people who aren’t afraid to take risks around here.”

Religious Tolerance and Growing up in Brooklyn

The question becomes: how can we maintain and express our deep-seated religious beliefs and practices without becoming intolerant of those who do not share, or possibly oppose them? The answer to this is expressed by L. Ron Hubbard in his nonreligious book called The Way to Happiness:

Overcoming Discrimination—the ’69 World Series and Hurricanes Today

In the late summer and fall of 1969 there was a great deal of hostility and discrimination between the Black and White communities in New York City. The general level of communication was resentful or antagonistic among strangers from each.

The Accidental Bigot

A bigot’s a bad thing to be. But, theoretically, it could happen to any one of us. For many years (and in what feels like another lifetime), I worked in the film business. Anyone familiar with that industry knows it involves arduous, long days and requires plenty of patience.