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Dogmatic Tolerance = Hypocritical Tolerance.
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Dogmatic Tolerance = Hypocritical Tolerance. It is a word synonymous with peace, good will, brotherly love, acceptance and forgiveness. It is a virtue that is essential in a world filled with racial and religious discrimination. But at the same time tolerance, or, more specifically, the modern, politically correct definition of tolerance, holds some very dangerous pitfalls which, if our government, and we, as a people are not careful of, could be crippling to the individualism, and the religious diversity of Canada, and the world. The dictionary definition of tolerance is: "The capacity for, or the practice of recognizing and...
anything opposing the 'perfect' view of tolerance will not be tolerated.

In closing, I will end with two quotes. One from Ravi Zacharias, who said "To say that there is no such thing as an absolute truth is to put oneself in an intellectually fragile situation, because in making that statement one says that their own statement is, in fact, not an absolute truth, and therefore, it is a completely self-defeating statement." And the second, is from my Grandmother, who said "Jesse, remember to be open minded, BUT never let yourself be so open-minded that your brains fall out!"

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