The Struggles Of World Religions: How Tolerance Became A Virtue by Aravindan Neelakandan - May 5, 2021 12:44 PM The cover of Professor Arvind Sharma's 'Religious Tolerance: A History'. Snapshot It is a must-read for everyone who engages in civilisational and inter-religious dialogue. Today everyone talks about religious tolerance. It is a virtue. Of course, it has been pointed out that one can go beyond tolerance and go towards acceptance. Yet religious tolerance is a basic common virtue demanded in a civilised society of any religious group. Every religion today wants to show itself as tolerant. But this has not always been so. Every major religion in the world has struggled internally and with other religions to come to the point where tolerance has become a virtue.