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Post by Tamrin on Oct 1, 2011 9:07:44 GMT 10
But for one reason or another there is no mention of tolerance as a Masonic virtue or tenantClive Herron
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 1, 2011 9:09:25 GMT 10
Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick — and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn’t
Isaac Bonewits (Born this day 1949)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 12, 2011 5:43:47 GMT 10
Intolerance is evidence of impotence
Aleister Crowley (Born this day 1875)
[Paradoxically, so too is tolerance evidence of impotence, where we "tolerate" something when we would rather not, as in the previous post]
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 22, 2014 9:37:38 GMT 10
“We need to remember that tolerance is not a Christian virtue. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty — these are Christian virtues. And obviously, in a diverse community, tolerance is an important working principle. But it’s never an end itself. In fact, tolerating grave evil within a society is itself a form of serious evil. Likewise, democratic pluralism does not mean that Catholics should be quiet in public about serious moral issues because of some misguided sense of good manners. A healthy democracy requires vigorous moral debate to survive. Real pluralism demands that people of strong beliefs will advance their convictions in the public square — peacefully, legally and respectfully, but energetically and without embarrassment. Anything less is bad citizenship and a form of theft from the public conversation.” - Archbishop Charles J. Chaput ( emphasis added).
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