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In 1635 the Japanese were forbidden, on pain of death, to attempt to travel abroad, and Japanese citizens already overseas were prevented from returning, in case they brought back subversive Christian doctrines.
Although rule began in repressive fashion, gradually, by the mid-1960s, severe ideological doctrines were being relaxed.
It is dwarfed by the following of Elijah Muhammed's son, Warith Deen Mohammed, a mainstream Muslim imam who rejected the "blue-eyed devils" doctrines two decades ago, and who in 1998 told Jonah Blank of U.S.
An article explicates the doctrines of tough-parenting guru John Rosemond, who orders parents to apply conservative, Old Testament-style standards to child-rearing.
Wouldn't tolerance be easier if it only required agreement to disagree peacefully rather than demanding actual sharing of religious doctrines at some level of abstraction?