Competition success magazine
Competition success magazine use full for civil services students published this article page no 42 tolerance goes the seductive spiel is the high and lofty attitude of a good person a sophisticated person those without tolerance have hearts of stone care for nobody but themselves and probably dont bathe with any regularity. once we believe this snake-oil tolerance becomes a part of our self-image. we want to be seen as good sophisticated with a warm heart. the picture comforts us and feeds our egos but accepting the hype as reality puts us on the road to death. to maintain our wonderful self-image we must tolerate everything–or we cease to be good or sophisticated or warmhearted–or clean. and we can draw no lines beyond which we will not go tolerance is all or nothing. think not? try to stand for something good something as benign as love of country say that they dont like. however pleasant and reasonable you are the tolerance police–mighty masters of hypocrisy–will let loose a barrage of angry vindictive name-calling like youve never heard before. and every name they call says youre a bad person. youre a bigot a racist a jingoist–even if what you said has nothing to do with any of it. the name-callers goal after all is not to speak truth but to shame you into silence. if it works you further embolden their agenda but you move down the road toward a dead-end where you will find it necessary to tolerate evil. somehow to prove that youre a good person. and thats a living death. an old saying tells us if we dont stand for something well fall for anything–and too many of us have fallen for the feel-good act-stupid idea of tolerance. the bible has no truck with tolerance it speaks of standing for what is good and valuing each other. were to do what is right to love mercy and to walk humbly with god. that snake in the garden is the one that came up with the idea of tolerance. © copyright 2007 by bette dowdell. all rights reserved competitive review buy.
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