The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
Thoughts about the dark side of tolerance
Some time ago, I felt that I was struck to the ground by a bolt of lighting and my eyes were opened to the dark side of tolerance.
Tolerance is when the swamp creatures of Congress never read the Constitution. I know this has to be true because of all of the unconstitutional votes that they cast.
Tolerance is when many of our churches give up their freedom of speech because of the Johnson Act. The churches should follow Ezekiel 33:1-10, the watchman and his message.
Tolerance means allowing anything. It is an intellectual argument against upholding private and especially public morality. It is the social revolution as described by Karl Marx.
Tolerance is used as the siren song for breaking down public morality.
The breakdown of civic morality is essential for the creation of a totalitarian regime. People will not stand for the actions of a dictatorship if they are moral in their civil and personal lives.
Liberals and socialists have double standards and will tolerate anything except about which they disagree, usually in the name of tolerance.
Richard Henry Lee, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, stated in a letter to James Madison on November 26 1784: “Refiners may weave as fine a web of reason as they please, but the experience of all times shows religion to be the guardian of morals.”
Several decades ago what was deemed an abomination, today is considered normal and that is the height of tolerance. Tolerance is when religion was removed from the public school system. Morality declined, drug abuse exploded and crime became rampant. The minds and hearts of public educated students are altered by these federally controlled institutions.
Truth is a very precious virtue and our leaders is Washington know this but they sparingly use it and tolerance is when the people keep re-electing them. Tolerance is when the people are conditioned to accept perpetual war and that is all of the dark side of tolerance that I can think of for now. David B. Genis Painesville