A Treatise on Toleration by Voltaire - Book Report/Review Example

Voltaire believes that Christians should be tolerant because their religion was practiced in a different way by different people belonging to the same religion and the religion was not considered as popular until philosophy became a part of it and the understanding of the religion became clearer. The second reason he provided in support of Christians being tolerant towards other religion was that the early Christians were Jewish and Jewish religion is a heavy supporter of tolerance and Jesus himself was a Jewish follower.

He even states that earlier Christians were divided into two groups and they were tolerant against each other and the same practices should still be followed if the world has to live in harmony. The third reason supporting Christian tolerance is that the religion’s key figure was a strong promoter of tolerance; the key figure is Jesus himself. He even stated that there were differences among people who followed Christianity and they had to tolerate each other, so the Christian religion now needs to tolerate other religion as human error and difference of opinion exists.