What do you consider tolerance?

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vluvski:

The word tolerance makes me think of a narrow political agenda to normalize immoral behavior, eventually culminating in intolerance and suppression of those who are considered to be intolerant.

As is happening in Canada right now.

 

[koda]

vluvski:

Of whose agenda might you be speaking?
The OP asked for our definitions of tolerance. The word has been degraded into a social and political philosophy I cannot condone. I have similar feelings about words like diversity and feminism. They’re buzz words with nice definitions with devicive and destructive connotations given their new context.
I have friends who are gay, I have friends who are in favor of abortion, I have friends who are atheists,I have friends who abuse alcohol, I have sin in my own life. My friends know which behaviors I consider inappropriate, but I love and respect them as God’s children.
There have been occasions when hate crimes were rampant and lost souls were blasted into oblivion. The pendulum has swung the other way, and we are now experiencing the similar ostracization, open hostility, and extreme burning at the stake of all who are considered moral, and therefore intolerant.

You are to be commended - not everyone is so open and loving to people they consider immoral. What scares me is that intolerance throughout history has resulted in the wholesale ostrazation or in some cases attempted destruction of those on the “wrong” side, whatever it was at the time - some of which were perpetrated by folks who were supposed to be the “good” guys. Once Christians stopped being the persecuted back in Constantine’s day, many decided to assume the role of persecutor. The Crusades, the Inquisition, witch burnings, centuries of open anti-semitism. But not just Christians of course, we have the Nazis, the Communists, the anti-communists, the list goes on and on, and let’s not forget the fundamentalist Islamists. The problem with human nature is that once you decide you are morally superior to another, it is easy to rationalize mistreating them. So the word intolerance actually chills my blood as it has led to so much bloodletting in the past. The opposite of intolerance is tolerance. I don’t want to be sent to a concentration camp any more than you do. But I’m not for sending those I don’t agree with there either.

 

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koda:

The opposite of intolerance is tolerance.

Yes, but that’s the logical definition of tolerance. The people who suffer from this diarrhea of the mouth who can’t seem to stop spewing the word “tolerance” from their lips take it far past tolerance to condoning, accepting, and even encouraging immoral behaviors while crying intolerance! to anyone who, without violence or malice, expresses a contrary opinion. These people are being manipulated by those who would have them believe that they are being oppressed at every turn. They are no longer capable of sound logic. I am sad for them, but my sympathy does not cross the line.
Hate the sin, not the sinner, but even more importantly, love the sinner, not the sin.

 

[Pug]

Tolerance to me is when someone you live with insists on putting damp clothing into the dresser no matter what you do. So you can either take it all out, dry it, and then put it all back exactly as it was so they don’t get mad, OR you do nothing and eventually have to throw away the dresser because it gets moldy and stinks and you hope the mold doesn’t spread to other parts of the house.

The place where tolerance comes in is when you don’t constantly create division over the issue.

IOW, I agree with Hospitaller.

 

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koda:

. Once Christians stopped being the persecuted back in Constantine’s day, many decided to assume the role of persecutor. The Crusades, the Inquisition, witch burnings, centuries of open anti-semitism…

This is an old, and incorrect, charge. The crusades were just wars and the inquistions are widely misunderstood.

 

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Lisa4Catholics:

There are alot of different oppinions on what tolerance is.What do you think it is?God Bless and looking foward to your response

I really do not believe in tolerance. Just think about it. Total tolerance would ultimately lead to the abolishment of religion & laws. It would be a free for all society (not that it isn’t already – legalized abortion, push for homosexual marriage, embryonic stem cell testing, ect).

Those who preach “tolerance” are always the most intolerant people I meet.