The problem is, Gary, that tolerance is not always a two way street. Should we be tolerant of the intolerant? No!

In the West, including Australia, tolerance has become a synonym for weakness; weakness, which is being exploited by the intolerant groups we have allowed among us and have even fostered in their intolerance.

Today, “tolerance” means giving in to loud and aggressive minorities and feeling ashamed of our own heritage, history and social mores. The majority has allowed itself to be cowered by the minority. Christianity in the west has become so tolerant of other religions, mainly Islam, that it has become irrelevant. The law has become so tolerant of ethnic gangs that these gangs rule the streets in their ghettos. A Mardi Gras of perverts is hailed as something ‘good’. We even tolerate the burning of our flag.

Our culture has been too tolerant already, for too long. We might still have enough time left to toughen up and be proud of who we are and what we have. Our easygoing tolerance has been used and abused for too long. If we don’t lift our game and stiffen our backbones, we will eventually be subjects of people whose dictionary doesn’t have the word tolerance in it

That is a Good point Leigh. It launches into the fabricated language of nothingness, such as Meaningless word : Diversity and Tolerance as you so well explained.
Frank Furedi is the Author of: “The Politics of Fear”. And an excerpt is located here.
http://majorityrights.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/86/
A must read.

Hey Amsadl,

Good to see you questioning the "statistics" provided re crime in Italy. Of course they are rubbish.

But so are your sweeping statements about white making up the majority of rapes, murders and muggings etc.

Any chance of a source?

Such a statement is ridiculous as the majority of our population is white. It is only logical that the numbers fall in that area. If you care to research it I think you will find rapes are most frequent in Aboriginal communities and may represent a higher % than the rest of the country.

Great article Gary! The only way to deal with the intolerant, is to be intolerant of their intolerance!

Mind you, whilst Islam is in general an intolerant religion which has yet to undergo a reformation and enlightenment period, lets not
kid ourselves about Xtianity. There are plenty of Xtian types, even on this website, ie Coach and others, who would love to enforce their religious dogma on the rest of us, given half a chance.

If we look at the fundie movement in the US and now increasingly here, if we look at the worldwide political influence and agenda of the Vatican etc, these types would soon take us back to religious barbarism, given an inch.

Religion should be a lifestyle choice and no more. Until that happens, our tolerant society will be continually threatened by those intolerant forces with an agenda which they claim floated down from the heavens.

Dear Leigh (and all)

Can I recommend you look into the following:

Second Evangelical Awakening. There are some very well researched Real Audio talks by J Edwin Orr, a noted historian, (and theologically ok) Here http://www.jedwinorr.com/
Click to the 'teaching of..' section, and then click on one of the Welsh Revival of 1904 and similar talks.
http://ctlibrary.com/4546 <= is a good one on the beginnings of Methodism

The striking aspect of a study of the historical conditions preceeding the revivals, was the similarity to NOW.. especially the cultural and social decadence and immorality.

I applaud your continued defense of our values, and way of life, yet at the same time, we are sliding ever downward, as the 'merchants in the temple' of commerce continue to push the boundaries of acceptability, in the name of artistic freedom, yet the reality is they are selling our souls for 30 pieces of silver.

When men and woman humble themselves before Almighty God, as per II Chronicles 7.13 "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, then....will I hear from heaven and heal their land." on that day, nothing will be able to resist the unleashing of the Holy Spirit, as it was in Whales.. where the miners were so tranformed the Mine Donkeys would not respond because they did not understand the language without profanity.

The Spirit of God, does not force Himself on us, God waits... for open hearts and willing minds.. on that day, our greatest regret will be that we wasted so much of our lives in carnality, our cry will be that we have lost so much of what could have been...

Are we open ? Do we hear His voice ? will we bend our wills to His voice ? or will we continue striving for ever deeper depths of depravity ? The choice is ours

Thailand, spiritually dead for years and years, closed minds, deaf ears, blind eyes to the gospel. We prayed.. and prayed.. and then prayed more and now 1000s are coming to Christ.

Gary

Thank you for a well written and very well balanced argument. Definitely one of the best I have read on the subject.

coach

Your intolerance of others is mind boggling.

gw

And so is yours.

Cheers
Kay