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Tolerance is the loving acceptance of people's normal
individual differences. The tolerant person does not
affirm that the person who is "different" is better than
the normative person, nor does the tolerant person affirm
that the normative person is better than the "different"
person. The tolerant person does not make value
judgement about normal individual personal differences.
People are accepted in their uniqueness and encouraged to
be in dialogue with each other that they may become
familiar with each other as other than themselves. People
who are all alike are boring to each other; for this
reason God made us different so we might choose a
different intimate other, in freedom.
If we take too literally the notion that we are made
in the image of God we fall into the trap that we should
all be alike---like God. That trap occasions our trying
to enforce conformity upon ourselves and others while
pretending that we are transcendent in knowledge,
understanding, wisdom, power, love, etc.---like God. We
presume to have the knowledge of good and evil and seek to
make others in our own image---like God did, except that
we avow that we are helping others conform to the image of
God according to God's will. Such arrogance excludes the
possibility of genuine love and the tolerance which is an
integral part of love.
Some people feel that they have the responsibility to
overtly approve or disapprove of each behavior of which
they become aware. (They feel they are like a judgmental
God who must pronounce judgement upon each and every act
of his each and every creature.) People with that sense
of responsibility can not be tolerant. They carry a great
burden of responsibility, one which is increased as they
become aware of the diversity of people and life styles.
They are likely to resent people who increase that burden
and so excommunicate them in order to avoid increasing
judicial burdens. Thus through excommunications sin is
increased and promotes more deviant behavior as people
seek ways out of their double binds. Thus there is an
increased need for tolerance prompted by the absence of
tolerance.
Tolerance is not possible for legalists for they are
likely to perceive tolerance as an endorsement of the
violations of good moral/ethical codes. Tolerance is
possible only to those who accept the gift of the
transcendence of technocracy.
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