Backgrounds and Consequences of the Formation of Religious Tolerance in Early Modern Europe

Today, the issue of religious tolerance and above all, freedom of religion in the contemporary world is recognized as a necessity and governments and international organizations all emphasize its importance as an undeniable human value. The fact is that religious tolerance as a basic doctrine and practice in Christianity was not much considered and in the first period of persecution Christianity was more or less interested in its benefit but later, when gained power, The emphasis was more on the religious purity and faithfulness of believers, and not only on tolerance and kindness and love, but also on religious violence and persecution in its most extreme form, in the Catholic-Protestant Churches The tendency in the West to tolerate, was not because of religious grounds, but the social pressures of the new world, especially after the devastating and bloody 150 years of Religious Wars. However, there have been two currents among past and present Christian thinkers. A movement that advocated religious violence and justified that taking people to salvation and paradise is better than any other virtue, and ine the opposite side some schoolares who believed that although salvation is very important, but faith is voluntary issue. Violence cannot be entered into the confidentiality of faith.