Sure. I agree that there can be objective facts that people can be ignorant of. To the best of my knowledge nobody knows whether Goldbach's conjecture is true or whether it is false (where knowledge consists in offering a proof), but there is of course an objective fact and it is either true or it is false and it can't be neither or both.

But I guess I was talking about how some people believe that their religious dogma reveals the truth about God because they believe that their religious dogma was revealed to human beings by way of direct revelation from God. Not ALL people, but SOME people. And if a person believes that then intolerance of other conceptions of God does seem to follow. And if a person believes that their religions conception of God defines what spirituality is (that it is communion with a being such defined) then intolerance of other conceptions of spirituality does seem to follow.

Note that those are hypothetical claims. IF a person believes THEN such and such follows. If the part after the IF and before the THEN doesn't obtain then the part after the THEN need not obtain either. But if the part after the IF and before the THEN does obtain then the part after the THEN would seem to logically follow.

If the part after the IF and before the THEN obtains then I'm not sure how much it really is tolerant to say that 'other people have the choice of not following the one true God and thus finding themself directly in hell'. Even if one doesn't explicitly SAY it, even if one merely IMPLIES it it would still seem (to me) to be an intolerant view.

It would of course be possible to be convinced (have absolute faith) in Goldbach's conjecture being true. And one could believe that while still maintaining that others have much of value that one can learn when it comes to poetry, for example, or computer programming. But the implication would seem to be that they don't have much of value in the realm of mathematics. And the implication might well be that they don't have much of value in the realm of the nature of God or the nature of spirituality.

I guess I'm thinking (keeping this on topic) that this might be part of why there is so much controversy over the nature (and interrelationship) between spirituality and religion.