Too Much Tolerance

Dogmatic Tolerance = Hypocritical



Tolerance.   It is a word synonymous with peace, good will, brotherly love, acceptance and forgiveness.   It is a virtue that is essential in a world filled with racial and religious discrimination.   But at the same time tolerance, or, more specifically, the modern, politically correct definition of tolerance, holds some very dangerous pitfalls which, if our government, and we, as a people are not careful of, could be crippling to the individualism, and the religious diversity of Canada, and the world.

The dictionary definition of tolerance is: “The capacity for, or the practice of recognizing and respecting the beliefs or practices of others”, but the definition has become much, much deeper than that.   Tolerance has become much deeper the recognition.   Much deeper than just respecting other beliefs.   Tolerance has come to mean the complete acceptance of others practices, tolerance has come to mean belief in other religions.   We, in order to be politically correct, are not to be so narrow-minded, so pompous or arrogant as to believe that our way is the only way.   That is unacceptable.   There is no such thing as one truth.   It is no longer an ‘either-or’ decision, it is a ‘both-and’ decision.   Slowly but surely our world is morphing into one, where there is no certainty, no actuality, the only ‘true’ truth is that which lies in the eye of the beholder.   Beliefs will be intermeshed, and hyphens will be liberally applied to religion, such as ‘Hindu-Christians’ and ‘Islamic-Jews’, even though these religions are fundamentally incompatible.   But incompatibility will be wiped away, and anything that is sure, or real will be snuffed out as narrow-mindedness.

You see, complete tolerance is impossible.   By being so dogmatically tolerant as to state that there is no complete truth, is to, because of the nature of that statement, exclude, or be intolerant towards those whose beliefs state otherwise.   Complete...