<<<Tolerance currently occupies a very high place in Western societies: it is considered gauche, even boorish, to question it. In The Intolerance of Tolerance, however, questioning tolerance -- or, at least, contemporary understandings of tolerance -- is exactly what D. A . Carson does.
Carson traces the subtle but enormous shift in the way we have come to understand tolerance over recent years -- from defending the rights of those who hold different beliefs to affirming all beliefs as equally valid and correct. He looks back at the history of this shift and discusses its implications for culture today, especially its bearing on democracy, discussions about good and evil, and Christian truth claims.
Using real-life examples that will sometimes arouse laughter and sometimes make the blood boil, Carson argues not only that the "new tolerance" is socially dangerous and intellectually debilitating but also that it actually leads to genuine intolerance of all who struggle to hold fast to their beliefs.>>>
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"[Affirming all beliefs as equally valid and correct" is the perverse version of "tolerance" insisted upon by all too many persons in our "enlightened" era. Examined intelligently, this view is seen for the nonsense that it is and it is about time someone addressed in detail the illogicality of such a view and the absurd and adverse consequences it produces.
The very recent dust-up concerning the Duck Commander patriarch's views on homosexuality is an example of the misapplication of "intolerance." Phil Robertson, in expressing his views about homosexuality as sin, is not being intolerant, as the LGBT (or at least LG and B elements of that acronym) or the A&E network representatives would assert. He holds to a viewpoint on that subject that he has developed from his study of the New Testament teaching on homosexuality. He cited scripture to that effect, with a near-verbatim recitation of I Corinthians 6:9. Those who have knee-jerkedly attacked him as "intolerant" will not be satisfied until their perverse concept of "tolerance" is accepted, namely their demand that any and all persons who address the subject of homosexuality must do so in a manner that accepts it as "natural", "normal" and of equal merit with homosexuality. Do not expect Phil Robertson to accede to that intolerant demand.