Thread: The New Judicial God: Tolerance
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Old 01-16-2008, 07:39 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by waitingtables View Post
You're right about tolerance, just ask the Catholic church. I suppose it's better to be a murderer, then to be tolerant. Most europeans were Christian back then, mostly because they didn't have a choice. For a very long time, if you went against the Catholic doctrine, you were dead or imprisoned.

But yes, the founders were of Christian beliefs, but not the beliefs that fundamentals or evangelicals follow today. And yes, the first settlers were very religious, that's why they came here, nobody else wanted to put up with their freaking crazy ideas.
I'm not advocating that by no stretch of the imagination. But if you want to promote a certain social order, you would have to irradicate anything that you find harmful to the society you are trying to promote. It's like if the Bible says no pork, and you have people running around with a bag of skins, you have a problem.
If you "tolerate" the skin eaters, eventually your followers will start wondering "why" no pork and next thing you know, you will have them reinterpreting your Bible and its teachings.
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