A Word on Tolerance

Tolerance is not acceptance.  There are many things in the world I have to tolerate, but I don't have to accept and, in fact, might fight against.

Yet in some ways, tolerance is for those with no conviction.  If you are not strong in your convictions, you'll fall victim to deceit, lies, and any nonsense people feed you.  Humanism, secular progressivism, and other liberal philosophies have taken hold in our society because not enough good people have stuck to their conservative convictions.
Tolerance has brought us too many bad things in today's world.  Political tolerance (and lack of will) has brought us political correctness.  Democrats' tolerance brought us terrorism.  Republican tolerance brought us illegal immigration and John McCain.  World tolerance brought us the United Nations, North Korea, Iran, and other evils in the world.  Voter tolerance (and stupidity) brought us Nobama.

The famous quote goes "if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything."  This is the problem with political moderates.  My own, not so famous saying, goes "right is right, left is wrong, and moderates don't have enough spine to take a stand."TM   The problem is tolerance.

Tolerance breeds deception. A perfect example is the rise of the Tea Party movement. Its one-issue focus on fiscal matters is a seemingly good thing.  However, their tolerance has brought them Pro-Choicers and other social liberals in significant numbers in their ranks.  It would have been much better for those fed up with Republicans to join a third party like the Constitution Party.  Tolerance brought us the "big tent" philosophy of political parties which I always thought was stupid.

Tolerance used to be good.  Jesus' tolerance for us sinners brought us redemption and everlasting life.  It seems that over the centuries, the definition of tolerance has changed, and in modern times it has brought us more bad than good.