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Rex Murphy: What the tolerant must tolerate
The National Post ^ | November 26 2011 | Rex Murphy

Posted on 11/26/2011 6:55:43 PM PST by xp38

To be a serious Christian in modern Western culture is to be the favoured easy target of every progressive thinker and every half-witted comedian. It is to have your sensibilities and your deepest beliefs on perpetual call for taunts, mockery and desecration. At a time when all progressives preach full volume for inclusivity and sensitivity, for the utmost care in speech when speaking of others with differing views or hues, Christians, as Christians, are under a constant hail of abuse and disregard. There is nothing too low or too vulgar.

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TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: canada; christians; murphy; rexmurphy; tolerant

1 posted on 11/26/2011 6:55:43 PM PST by xp38
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To: xp38

Rex Murphy is probably the most fair-minded liberal commentator that Canada has.


2 posted on 11/26/2011 7:03:05 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: Jonty30

like a Canadian Andy Rooney.


3 posted on 11/26/2011 7:07:39 PM PST by RitchieAprile (Precious little in your life is yours by right and won without a fight..)
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To: RitchieAprile

Better.

He actually writes about substantial stuff, not his grandma’s jar lids.


4 posted on 11/26/2011 7:10:31 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: xp38; exg; Alberta's Child; albertabound; AntiKev; backhoe; Byron_the_Aussie; Cannoneer No. 4; ...

So much is lost when it is necessary to abridge a column to 300 words. Please read the whole of the original hyperlinked article.


5 posted on 11/26/2011 7:14:27 PM PST by Clive
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To: xp38

“If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you” (John 15:19).


6 posted on 11/26/2011 7:23:49 PM PST by bella1 (As it was in the days of Lot....)
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To: xp38

Good article.


7 posted on 11/26/2011 7:31:03 PM PST by Sister_T ("Calling ILLEGAL aliens "immigrants" is like calling shoplifters 'customers'!"-UCFRoadWarrior ><>)
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To: xp38

Muslims don’t get abuse because they don’t tolerate it.


8 posted on 11/26/2011 7:33:47 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182
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To: xp38

Hatred of Christians and Jews is worn as a badge of honor by the Left. However, say one slightly negative thing about Muslims or homosexuals and they will excoriated you until you are six feet under.

(yes, I am aware of the absurd contradiction, but, who in their right mind would ever say that Leftism makes any sense at all?)


9 posted on 11/26/2011 7:40:00 PM PST by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: 240B

say something bad about porn stars or prostitutes, you even get grief on FR


10 posted on 11/26/2011 7:43:10 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: GeronL

Really? Do tell. Can you site an example.


11 posted on 11/26/2011 7:51:25 PM PST by 240B (he is doing everything he said he wouldn't and not doing what he said he would)
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To: 240B

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2812584/posts

like this thread


12 posted on 11/26/2011 7:55:59 PM PST by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: xp38
being tolerant is listening to music you don't like or going to a movie you don't like because your girl/wife likes it, NOT letting filthy disease ridden queers and RATS and goathumpers destroy the country...
13 posted on 11/26/2011 8:49:42 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Jonty30

Wasn’t he the one wearing a blue necktie on air when Jack Layton passed? I seem to remember most everyone else waering orange.

My fave CBC person is the newsbabe in Vancouver, Susana..


14 posted on 11/26/2011 9:07:22 PM PST by RitchieAprile (Precious little in your life is yours by right and won without a fight..)
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To: RitchieAprile

I don’t know. I no longer watch tv. I haven’t for a good five years, but I do rent movies.

When I did watch the CBC News w/ Peter Mansbridge, he always did the commentary near the end of the show.


15 posted on 11/26/2011 9:59:30 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, than he must learn under the worst of times.)
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