Take care People.
There are Far right extremists out there who seek to misrepresent Tolerance… and make out Tolerance is a vise.
Tolerance is a virtue… yet always tolerance is conditional.
There are limit’s to tolerance.
Paul the apostle put’s it this way… “If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, be peaceably with all men. ”
Rom 12vs 8.
We may ask what are the minimum terms by which it is possible to live peaceably with others?
This is simple.
The mutual respect of each others Equal rights.
Any Person whom will respect your rights… that is someone with whom peaceful co-existence is possible.
They may have different personal religious opinions with which you may disagree… yet as long as they do not seek to impose their contrary opinions on anyone by force. These people fall within the scope of Civil human beings.
Yet If others will not respect your rights… you cannot live peaceably with such people. They are a threat to you.
That is beyond the bounds of tolerance.
This is why Rights are fundamental to a Free and civil… and tolerant society. So Islamics who do not seek to impose Sharia Law on society may be tolerated, yet Islamic who seek to overthrow our free society and compel Islam upon others… or believe they have the right to persecute, rob, rape, and kill non-Muslims those people cannot be tollerated… there can be no peaceful co-existence with them.
Thus Tolerance is neither Black or white, but has important nuance.
We must never allow the Far right extremists to fool us into thinking Tolerance is foolishness, or weakness, or wrong, yet nor should we allow the woke to fool us into sacrificing all our values and ideals for the sake of a ‘suicidal tolerance of Evil’.
The American Founding Fathers would say… Be tolerant… but also be Well armed… and take no Bullshit. There is a Bottom line beyond with tolerance cannot be stretched.
Free speech is founded upon the virtue of tolerance.
Tim Wikiriwhi.
Christian Libertarian.