Webster’s defines tolerance as “sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own.”
Legislation recently introduced in California (AB 1056) to push tolerance education in public schools defines tolerance as “attitudes and behaviors that convey respect toward individuals and groups, especially those individuals and groups that have been, and continue to be, systematically and historically marginalized. Tolerance does not mean a passive allowance or indulgence of the beliefs or practices of another individual.” [Emphasis supplied.]
In other words, all children must show an active respect for controversial sexual lifestyles, regardless of what their parents or religious beliefs dictate.
The modern definition of tolerance is not merely allowing for others’ beliefs. Rather, your own beliefs must be reconstructed to fully embrace, accept, and respect others’ beliefs.
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Tolerance is a modern virtue, and virtue is never passive. :)
Thing is, I'm grateful, to an extent, for the pervading air of "tolerance," because it's allowed me to make friends and stay friends even though I'm a faithful churchgoer and Christian and many of them are not. It's a cultural rule that you don't denigrate someone else's lifestyle, and that extends to mine as well.
But anything based on human goodness goes sour after a while, and that's where Tolerance is now.
Glad you made it safely to your new home, by the way. Enjoyed "traveling" with y'all!
-- SJ
Funny thing is, Rome had similar issues with tolerance. The reason Christian's were persecuted and other religions (of which there were many) were not, was that Christianity claimed to be the ONLY way... and was therefore not tolerant of other belief systems, which was against the Roman law! The edict Constantine gave was simply to say that Christianity was now to be tolerated...
The more I see happen, the more I see history repeating itself in our current culture. Here's hoping we can change that course...
I think I just threw up a little...
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