The Sophistry of "Tolerance"
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Posted on 05/01/2005 12:44:00 PM PDT by expatguy
It's both bemusing and sad at times to watch how in recent years moral relativists and secular humanists have completely taken over not only our society, but our dictionaries as well and relentlessly used their nunchakus of "diversity" and "tolerance" to beat a moral and unsuspecting society into submission.
For the obvious reasons, standing up and facing our opponents head on is nothing more than an exercise in futilty at this point. We'll only get thunked again on the head with the nunchakus. Only by skillfully disarming our adversaries first can we prevail and fight to regain the dignity of our society. And so, on to tolerance.
There seems to be a misconception on our part that by being tolerant we are assuming a neutral posture towards another individual's behaviour or convictions where no one party imposes their beliefs or their concept of morality on the other one. The problem is, that being tolerant is not a position of neutrality but rather one of imposition. If you think about it, we need never tolerate someone that we agree with, but only someone that we disagree with. The onus therefore lies on us to stand down from our own convictions and accept those of our adversary. That doesn't seem very tolerant now does it?
One can never be tolerant of an individual's persona, only of their behaviour. We can however be both courteous and respectful of the individual and still feel free to disagree with them without fear of reprisal.
Im courteous and respectful towards homosexuals if by chance I happen to meet one but Im not ever tolerant of their behaviour and neither should I be implored of nor forced by society to be tolerant of homosexual behaviour. Neither should you.
It's time that we all stood up and said enough. Tolerance ends now.
Salvation begins where tolerance ends.
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1 Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?ML/NJ2 He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbour, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
4 [He] In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.
5 He that putteth not out his money to usury, nor taketh reward against the innocent. He that doeth these things shall never be moved.
The Sophistry of "Tolerance"
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Thank you for the ping...lot's of work to do here.
The homos in Kuala Lumpur are not agressive like many are in the US. I usually see them on Sunday at the rear(park)
entrance to the Petronas Towers, at the cafe's. They tend to stick together, and don't bother/harass anyone.
In California it is a whole new ballgame. I had to kick one guy's a$$ years ago, as he kept pawing me: )
I knew you would surface sooner or later. Have a great day, bro!
I am not tolerant, never have been. I'm often decorous, but tolerance is for people with no spirit.
Yeah!
Well, I guess I finished off this thread. Didn't mean to.
Rut-roh!hehe!
You didn't say anything wrong. :)
Oh, good. Where'd everybody go, then, finding their spirit?
Thanks for the ping!
<< Rut-roh!
hehe!
You didn't say anything wrong. :) >>
A contrario -- got it Exactly Right, I'd say.
So here it is again!
"I am not tolerant, never have been. I'm often decorous -- but tolerance is for people with no spirit."
Hear! Hear!
Mornin'! :)
What happens if someone speaks out against homosexuality there?
I still like "dictatorship of relativism," but SoT works too.
You must be one really good looking guy /smirk
Don't forget my tequila and 151 before you come over ;-)
We think you're cool here.
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