Tolerance is the big thing now. Tolerate everything! Tolerate this religion! Tolerate that religion! Tolerate my worldview! Tolerate your worldview! People want tolerance out of the world. But will they get it?
In the words of John Wayne, "That'll be the day."
Honestly, I can understand the motives behind most tolerance calls,and they are very commendable. For instance, why can't we just tolerate each other and end all wars? I mean,we're evolving aren't we? So we should be getting to that point where we can lay down our guns and stop fighting, right? To put it bluntly, tolerance in this world is as impossible as Marx's classless society. There will always be someone who won't tolerate someone else. Ironically,it's usually the person calling for tolerance.
But I'm jumping ahead of myself!
Let's define tolerance. To be tolerant with someone often means that you don't agree with them,but you'll tolerate them. In other words, you may disagree,but it's not like you're going to,i dunno,kill the person. In America, we deal with tolerance somewhat well. Okay,so why can't we spread this to the rest of the world?...
Because most people who cry for tolerance often deny absolute truth and push for religious pluralism. This is what makes tolerance so impossible. Most religions don't mix well with each other. And if there's no absolute truth,how can we know what tolerance is? Isn't that pushing your morals on someone else? For shame! But now I'm mixing topics...sorry.
Okay,to bring this together, the world will never be tolerant because we will never open ourselves up to live with each other's disagreements. This especially goes for the tolerant-pushers. Why? Because they just can't tolerate one certain religion...can't you guess it? It's Christianity. If a Christian tries to speak up in public,his/her voice is drowned out by the "tolerant people" angry at the poor Christian for claiming truth. Now that just isn't tolerant is it? And this leads to a startling deeper truth which I'll discuss in my next blog post coming soon: "We are afraid of the God we don't believe in..."
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