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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: MrRiplEy[H] on January 14, 2006, 04:44:12 AM
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The last person on this board I expected to get a thread locked and delted. :D
Now I've seen it all. :aok
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Contrary to popular belief, in Western-style monotheistic religions, tolerance is not a virtue.
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what what what!!! a person being censored for posting something a moderator may find inappropriate. say it ain't so!!!
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Originally posted by Dinger
Contrary to popular belief, in Western-style monotheistic religions, tolerance is not a virtue.
pffft. the tolerant left has left it's imprint all over this. the most intolerant group on earth is the liberal. tolerance to you means those who agree with you. anyone else is just intolerant therefore should correctly be censored.
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Storch, can I recommend a good book to you? Its called "100 people who are screwing up America" by Bernard Goldberg. It touches on what you said in your last post. Its can be very humorous reading at times too. For instance, I think Courtney Love is number 89 or something, and it just has one word for her...."Ho". :rofl
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Huh? How does this have to do with liberals?
If you posit that the universe is governed by God, and that He has provided a specific way for humans to behave, you can't be tolerant of diversity there. There is the divinely inspired truth and there's error. That's it.
From the perspective of those who have the "truth", there's only two ways to view those in error.
A) See them as intrinsically inferior.
B) Acknowledge them as fundamentally equal.
Taking A) means conversely that the group of those with the "Truth" are intriniscally superior. The responses to the "non-believers" can vary from ignoring them to annihilating them.
Taking B) means acknowledging that those not in possession of the "Truth" have the capacity to gain such possession. Responses vary from doing nothing to missionary work to forced conversion and execution of those leading others astray.
but in no situation can someone who subscribes to such a religion hold that the other group's different set of beliefs are just as valid as his own. After all, it's not belief, it is the One True Way.
Tolerance is not a virtue; at best you get inaction.
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Originally posted by Ripsnort
Storch, can I recommend a good book to you? Its called "100 people who are screwing up America" by Bernard Goldberg. It touches on what you said in your last post. Its can be very humorous reading at times too. For instance, I think Courtney Love is number 89 or something, and it just has one word for her...."Ho". :rofl
thanks rip later today I'll be cruising to barnes and noble anyways i'll look it up.