Is tolerance intolerant?
December 10, 2018 at 5:19 pm
(This post was last modified: December 10, 2018 at 5:22 pm by tackattack.
Edit Reason: clarity
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A couple of thoughts I had and wanted opinions on.
Are you really tolerant in your beliefs? Is tolerance something to strive for? Should we strive to be more tolerant as a society? Is it even worth it?
Pluralization ought to be the case and it is beneficial. I don't agree with pluralization extrapolated to relativism though.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/0...51839.html
Even instrumental carols have been banned in some schools. Are people so weak in their beliefs that they can't accommodate someone else's belief?
I've told a muslim I hope your Ramadan goes well. I'd have no problem telling a Wiccan that I hope their Yule festival is well. It doesn't mean I support those beliefs.
I just don't know when "being tolerant" or "politically correct" became so much about what we don't want to see or believe or have, and less about respecting the sacredness of other people's beliefs?
I mean if we're truly an autonomous culture or striving for one, do we really respect the autonomy of the individual?
Are you really tolerant in your beliefs? Is tolerance something to strive for? Should we strive to be more tolerant as a society? Is it even worth it?
Pluralization ought to be the case and it is beneficial. I don't agree with pluralization extrapolated to relativism though.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/0...51839.html
Even instrumental carols have been banned in some schools. Are people so weak in their beliefs that they can't accommodate someone else's belief?
I've told a muslim I hope your Ramadan goes well. I'd have no problem telling a Wiccan that I hope their Yule festival is well. It doesn't mean I support those beliefs.
I just don't know when "being tolerant" or "politically correct" became so much about what we don't want to see or believe or have, and less about respecting the sacredness of other people's beliefs?
I mean if we're truly an autonomous culture or striving for one, do we really respect the autonomy of the individual?
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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