Main Themes in the Religion Unit

In class we started debating and discussing the main themes that we thought would go into the religion unit.  The main themes and thoughts brought up were mostly ideas about discrimination and respect issued between religions.  I think that those are the two building blocks to all the other issues.  If a community does not accept someone because of their personal belief, that can lead to all the other issues brought up.  For example terrorism, political discrimination, and government unfairness.  People act upon impulse and they will take to heart what people say about their belief.  Sometimes, action for people is started by their opinion on their beliefs.  Other times their actions are shielded because of other people's beliefs of their beliefs.  It puts you right back where you started.  The foundation of the issues is the lack of respect people will have to other people.  That doesn't seem like a very big issue and that is why no one addresses it.  If people of a certain belief think that everyone should believe in their belief, would that help and prevent any more issues?  Constrictive worldly views need different beliefs to create actual progress in the world.  The main issues that i think that should be brought up the most this semester are effects through government, bordering religion values between tradition and modern ideas, action based from religion, views upon which religions are discriminated, and history relationships between  religions.  The idea of learning where religions are connected interests me.  I think it would be interesting to go into not why the community of people go against religions that are not like their own but learning how religions and political leaders of both sides handle it.  Overall the idea of figuring out what changes views between religions interests me.