Don't spit on Spinoza.

Amsterdam is a famously liberal and diverse city, not just in the 21st century but going back centuries and centuries. 

Amsterdam's rich cultural history and it's reputation for toleration has also built up over the centuries, for example, Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) was pushing the boundaries of the Amsterdam Jewish community in the mid 17th century with his then-radical ideas that God is everywhere and in everything:

 “Most religions teach that God exists somewhere outside the world, perhaps in heaven. Baruch Spinoza (1632–77) was unusual in thinking that God is the world. He wrote about ‘God or Nature’, to make this point–meaning that the two words refer to the same thing. God and nature are two ways of describing a single thing. God is nature and nature is God. This is a form of pantheism–the belief that God is everything.”
— A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories) by Nigel Warburton

I find this thinking beautiful and clearly resonates with many modern thinkers, but is possibly antithetical to religious extremists who believe this sort of thinking is dangerous?

There are boundaries to freedom and even Amsterdam struggles with some more extremists movement, who don't believe in equality for women or still see being in a same-sex relationship as a perversion. There appears to be a correlation between such religious zealots and a dislike of more liberal-thinker like Spinoza.

Before my Dutch wedding, we met outside the Amsterdam Gementee by the statue of Spinoza who is rapidly becoming one of my favourite philosophers. Not just an advocate of seeing God in Nature, but also geometry and mathematics: 

“Spinoza did not just admire geometry; he wrote philosophy as if it were geometry. The ‘proofs’ in his book Ethics look like geometrical proofs and include axioms and definitions. They are supposed to have the same relentless logic as geometry. But instead of dealing with topics like the angles of triangles and the circumferences of circles, they are about God, nature, freedom and emotion.”
— A Little History of Philosophy (Little Histories) by Nigel Warburton

The Leopold Bloom, the hero of Joyce's Ulysses, an Irish man from Hungarian-Jewish family background, is also a fan of Spinoza who is mentioned a couple of times, including this famously comic scene, were Bloom gets attacked by a bigotted fool with a biscuit box:

“—Mendelssohn was a jew and Karl Marx and Mercadante and Spinoza. And the Saviour was a jew and his father was a jew. Your God.—He had no father, says Martin. That’ll do now. Drive ahead.—Whose God? says the citizen.—Well, his uncle was a jew, says he. Your God was a jew. Christ was a jew like me. Gob, the citizen made a plunge back into the shop.—By Jesus, says he, I’ll brain that bloody jewman for using the holy name. By Jesus, I’ll crucify him so I will. Give us that biscuit box here.”
— Ulysses by James Joyce

and checking, I see this Ulysses-Spinoza on Wikipedia:

1922: Leopold Bloom is shown several times to be an admirer of Spinoza in James Joyce's Ulysses (1922). Thoughts from Spinoza, an anthology, is represented on Bloom's bookshelf towards the end of the novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza   

So I'm in good company with Leopold Bloom and Joyce! Well we live in remarkably broad and diverse society, none of us is divine, we all have our strengths and weakness, and I always try to be open to new ways of thinking plus putting myself into the perspective of others. But there are limits to toleration and I really struggle with those who want to spit on Spinoza?

NB Spinoza lived where the Moses and Aaron Church is located now, and there is strong evidence that he may have been born there:

By Amsterdam Municipal Department for the Preservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings and Sites (bMA) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spinoza#/media/File:Mozes_en_A%C3%A4ronkerk.jpg