The Liberal Religion of “Tolerance”

[boilermaker55]

Paul G. Kengor

I’ve said it before, and I’m hardly alone. Many have observed it. Liberals revere tolerance. They practically worship it. It’s like a religion to them. Well, now comes a study that supports the point.

A new survey by Pew Research finds that when it comes to teaching children, liberals place a far higher priority on teaching “tolerance” than teaching religion. That liberals do this in schools is abundantly clear, but they apparently do it in their homes as well.

In this, Pew finds, liberals are the opposite of conservatives. “The starkest ideological differences [between liberals and conservatives] are over the importance of teaching religious faith,” reports Pew. “Among those who have consistently conservative attitudes across a range of political values, 81 percent think it is especially important for children to be taught religious faith…. Among those with consistently liberal views, just 26 percent rate the teaching of religious faith as especially important, and only 11 percent regard it as among the most important child-rearing qualities.”

Moreover, finds the survey, a staggering 88 percent of “consistently liberal” Americans list tolerance as their most important value in teaching their children.

While this data is significant, it’s also limited. It depends first and foremost on how one defines “tolerance,” and especially how liberals professing tolerance define tolerance.

I believe, in general, that liberals are not actually tolerant. Liberals tolerate only what they what want to tolerate. They tolerate things they agree with—which, of course, isn’t tolerance. Tolerance is about accepting the often-difficult differences between you and someone you strongly disagree with, and respecting that person’s right to an opposing point of view. Obviously, that’s not liberalism. This could be demonstrated multiple ways, but consider two salient examples pervasive in daily headlines: liberals’ behavior regarding same-sex marriage and abortion.

Liberals are relentless in denouncing, demonizing, boycotting, attacking, picketing, prosecuting, suing, fining, and even threatening to jail people who disagree with them on same-sex marriage. If your family owns a barn in New York (or elsewhere) and declines to rent it to a gay couple for a wedding ceremony, because such an arrangement violates your religious beliefs and freedom, liberals will fine you $13,000. If you’re Elaine Photography in New Mexico and beg not to photograph a same-sex wedding, liberals will sue you. If you are the Kleins in Oregon and plead not to make a cake for a same-sex ceremony, you will be picketed, hauled before state commissions, and have your livelihood ruined by liberals. If you are Jack Phillips, a baker in Colorado, or a florist in any number of states, who likewise prefers not to service same-sex events, you will be threatened with imprisonment. If you are the owner of Chick-fil-A or other businesses, and you dare admit that you’re against redefining marriage because you believe your God says you can’t, liberals literally will assert at your death that Jesus is going to send you to hell. I could go on and on with such examples: Mozilla, Craig James, the owner of Barilla pasta, the governor of Arizona, etc., etc., etc.

Liberals refuse to tolerate those who refuse to redefine marriage.

As for abortion, liberals not only refuse to respect your opposition; they insist you pay for their abortions. From Hobby Lobby to the Little Sisters of the Poor, they’re making you pay. If you don’t, you will be fined mightily.

I could go on and on with other examples from other issues. Look at how liberals run the universities, the training grounds for their missionaries of diversity. The faculty at these colleges are 80-90 percent liberal, and conservatives are not only marginalized but often barred from speaking on campus or angrily protested by these self-professing champions of free speech and open-mindedness.

All of this tells us much about liberals, but it especially reveals the phoniness of their claims to “tolerance.”

In truth, what liberals really practice is a selective “tolerance.” And when that selective tolerance doesn’t extend to you and your viewpoint, they tell you that you’re against tolerance, that you’re against diversity, and that you “hate.”

All of which brings me back to the Pew survey. I think it reveals something even deeper. Many liberals have left religion because it doesn’t accord to their definition of what religion (or God) should be. They’ve jettisoned Christianity because certain aspects don’t accord to their worldview. Their Christianity is, at best, a kind of cafeteria Christianity, where they pick and choose the elements of the faith they like and discard those they don’t. It’s a selective Christianity.

Liberals are instead embracing the faith of tolerance. But here, too, it’s a selective faith.

And most ironic, this selective tolerance often excludes the religious—or at least the religious that liberals disagree with.

- See more at: The Liberal Religion of “Tolerance” | The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College Center for Vision and Values - A conservative think tank promoting truth and liberty through a vision of faith and freedom.

Do you have the mental capacity to speak your own thoughts? Just curious. It would be unfair of me to take advantage of your inability to communicate.

 

[Norman]

This is a joke, right?

I know you have exceptionally low IQ, but damn...

Design us a country that exists without taxation, genius.

Let's hear it.

I don't need to. I know republicans generally stand for "your body, your wallet", while democrats stand for "your work, my pay".

There is a difference between 90% taxation (advocated by the regressive liberals) and <10% (advocated by right). Questions?

Anyway, clearly the left nowadays is regressive and opressive as one can be. Stalin would be proud. This is just one example...

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Design us a country that exists without taxation, genius.

Let's hear it.

I don't need to. I know republicans generally stand for "your body, your wallet", while democrats stand for "your work, my pay".

There is a difference between 90% taxation (advocated by the regressive liberals) and <10% (advocated by right). Questions?

Anyway, clearly the left nowadays is regressive and opressive as one can be. Stalin would be proud. This is just one example...

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

You want no federal government. So you're not really an American.

 

[Lutroo]

Paul G. Kengor

I’ve said it before, and I’m hardly alone. Many have observed it. Liberals revere tolerance. They practically worship it. It’s like a religion to them. Well, now comes a study that supports the point.

A new survey by Pew Research finds that when it comes to teaching children, liberals place a far higher priority on teaching “tolerance” than teaching religion. That liberals do this in schools is abundantly clear, but they apparently do it in their homes as well.

In this, Pew finds, liberals are the opposite of conservatives. “The starkest ideological differences [between liberals and conservatives] are over the importance of teaching religious faith,” reports Pew. “Among those who have consistently conservative attitudes across a range of political values, 81 percent think it is especially important for children to be taught religious faith…. Among those with consistently liberal views, just 26 percent rate the teaching of religious faith as especially important, and only 11 percent regard it as among the most important child-rearing qualities.”

Moreover, finds the survey, a staggering 88 percent of “consistently liberal” Americans list tolerance as their most important value in teaching their children.

While this data is significant, it’s also limited. It depends first and foremost on how one defines “tolerance,” and especially how liberals professing tolerance define tolerance.

I believe, in general, that liberals are not actually tolerant. Liberals tolerate only what they what want to tolerate. They tolerate things they agree with—which, of course, isn’t tolerance. Tolerance is about accepting the often-difficult differences between you and someone you strongly disagree with, and respecting that person’s right to an opposing point of view. Obviously, that’s not liberalism. This could be demonstrated multiple ways, but consider two salient examples pervasive in daily headlines: liberals’ behavior regarding same-sex marriage and abortion.

Liberals are relentless in denouncing, demonizing, boycotting, attacking, picketing, prosecuting, suing, fining, and even threatening to jail people who disagree with them on same-sex marriage. If your family owns a barn in New York (or elsewhere) and declines to rent it to a gay couple for a wedding ceremony, because such an arrangement violates your religious beliefs and freedom, liberals will fine you $13,000. If you’re Elaine Photography in New Mexico and beg not to photograph a same-sex wedding, liberals will sue you. If you are the Kleins in Oregon and plead not to make a cake for a same-sex ceremony, you will be picketed, hauled before state commissions, and have your livelihood ruined by liberals. If you are Jack Phillips, a baker in Colorado, or a florist in any number of states, who likewise prefers not to service same-sex events, you will be threatened with imprisonment. If you are the owner of Chick-fil-A or other businesses, and you dare admit that you’re against redefining marriage because you believe your God says you can’t, liberals literally will assert at your death that Jesus is going to send you to hell. I could go on and on with such examples: Mozilla, Craig James, the owner of Barilla pasta, the governor of Arizona, etc., etc., etc.

Liberals refuse to tolerate those who refuse to redefine marriage.

As for abortion, liberals not only refuse to respect your opposition; they insist you pay for their abortions. From Hobby Lobby to the Little Sisters of the Poor, they’re making you pay. If you don’t, you will be fined mightily.

I could go on and on with other examples from other issues. Look at how liberals run the universities, the training grounds for their missionaries of diversity. The faculty at these colleges are 80-90 percent liberal, and conservatives are not only marginalized but often barred from speaking on campus or angrily protested by these self-professing champions of free speech and open-mindedness.

All of this tells us much about liberals, but it especially reveals the phoniness of their claims to “tolerance.”

In truth, what liberals really practice is a selective “tolerance.” And when that selective tolerance doesn’t extend to you and your viewpoint, they tell you that you’re against tolerance, that you’re against diversity, and that you “hate.”

All of which brings me back to the Pew survey. I think it reveals something even deeper. Many liberals have left religion because it doesn’t accord to their definition of what religion (or God) should be. They’ve jettisoned Christianity because certain aspects don’t accord to their worldview. Their Christianity is, at best, a kind of cafeteria Christianity, where they pick and choose the elements of the faith they like and discard those they don’t. It’s a selective Christianity.

Liberals are instead embracing the faith of tolerance. But here, too, it’s a selective faith.

And most ironic, this selective tolerance often excludes the religious—or at least the religious that liberals disagree with.

- See more at: The Liberal Religion of “Tolerance” | The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College Center for Vision and Values - A conservative think tank promoting truth and liberty through a vision of faith and freedom.

Do you have the mental capacity to speak your own thoughts? Just curious. It would be unfair of me to take advantage of your inability to communicate.

Well. Since you have nothing to say, you won't mind if I add you to my ignore list. Thanks for giving me advanced notice of your clueless nature. You've saved me a lot of time having to debate nothing.

 

[NYcarbineer]

You get to keep your own earnings, once you've paid your taxes.

This is a joke, right?

I know you have exceptionally low IQ, but damn...

Design us a country that exists without taxation, genius.

Let's hear it.

I don't need to. I know republicans generally stand for "your body, your wallet", while democrats stand for "your work, my pay".

There is a difference between 90% taxation (advocated by the regressive liberals) and <10% (advocated by right). Questions?

Anyway, clearly the left nowadays is regressive and opressive as one can be. Stalin would be proud. This is just one example...

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

You'd be happy to get rid of the military? Are you sure that claim would hold up to scrutiny of your past posts?

 

[NYcarbineer]

Paul G. Kengor

I’ve said it before, and I’m hardly alone. Many have observed it. Liberals revere tolerance. They practically worship it. It’s like a religion to them. Well, now comes a study that supports the point.

A new survey by Pew Research finds that when it comes to teaching children, liberals place a far higher priority on teaching “tolerance” than teaching religion. That liberals do this in schools is abundantly clear, but they apparently do it in their homes as well.

In this, Pew finds, liberals are the opposite of conservatives. “The starkest ideological differences [between liberals and conservatives] are over the importance of teaching religious faith,” reports Pew. “Among those who have consistently conservative attitudes across a range of political values, 81 percent think it is especially important for children to be taught religious faith…. Among those with consistently liberal views, just 26 percent rate the teaching of religious faith as especially important, and only 11 percent regard it as among the most important child-rearing qualities.”

Moreover, finds the survey, a staggering 88 percent of “consistently liberal” Americans list tolerance as their most important value in teaching their children.

While this data is significant, it’s also limited. It depends first and foremost on how one defines “tolerance,” and especially how liberals professing tolerance define tolerance.

I believe, in general, that liberals are not actually tolerant. Liberals tolerate only what they what want to tolerate. They tolerate things they agree with—which, of course, isn’t tolerance. Tolerance is about accepting the often-difficult differences between you and someone you strongly disagree with, and respecting that person’s right to an opposing point of view. Obviously, that’s not liberalism. This could be demonstrated multiple ways, but consider two salient examples pervasive in daily headlines: liberals’ behavior regarding same-sex marriage and abortion.

Liberals are relentless in denouncing, demonizing, boycotting, attacking, picketing, prosecuting, suing, fining, and even threatening to jail people who disagree with them on same-sex marriage. If your family owns a barn in New York (or elsewhere) and declines to rent it to a gay couple for a wedding ceremony, because such an arrangement violates your religious beliefs and freedom, liberals will fine you $13,000. If you’re Elaine Photography in New Mexico and beg not to photograph a same-sex wedding, liberals will sue you. If you are the Kleins in Oregon and plead not to make a cake for a same-sex ceremony, you will be picketed, hauled before state commissions, and have your livelihood ruined by liberals. If you are Jack Phillips, a baker in Colorado, or a florist in any number of states, who likewise prefers not to service same-sex events, you will be threatened with imprisonment. If you are the owner of Chick-fil-A or other businesses, and you dare admit that you’re against redefining marriage because you believe your God says you can’t, liberals literally will assert at your death that Jesus is going to send you to hell. I could go on and on with such examples: Mozilla, Craig James, the owner of Barilla pasta, the governor of Arizona, etc., etc., etc.

Liberals refuse to tolerate those who refuse to redefine marriage.

As for abortion, liberals not only refuse to respect your opposition; they insist you pay for their abortions. From Hobby Lobby to the Little Sisters of the Poor, they’re making you pay. If you don’t, you will be fined mightily.

I could go on and on with other examples from other issues. Look at how liberals run the universities, the training grounds for their missionaries of diversity. The faculty at these colleges are 80-90 percent liberal, and conservatives are not only marginalized but often barred from speaking on campus or angrily protested by these self-professing champions of free speech and open-mindedness.

All of this tells us much about liberals, but it especially reveals the phoniness of their claims to “tolerance.”

In truth, what liberals really practice is a selective “tolerance.” And when that selective tolerance doesn’t extend to you and your viewpoint, they tell you that you’re against tolerance, that you’re against diversity, and that you “hate.”

All of which brings me back to the Pew survey. I think it reveals something even deeper. Many liberals have left religion because it doesn’t accord to their definition of what religion (or God) should be. They’ve jettisoned Christianity because certain aspects don’t accord to their worldview. Their Christianity is, at best, a kind of cafeteria Christianity, where they pick and choose the elements of the faith they like and discard those they don’t. It’s a selective Christianity.

Liberals are instead embracing the faith of tolerance. But here, too, it’s a selective faith.

And most ironic, this selective tolerance often excludes the religious—or at least the religious that liberals disagree with.

- See more at: The Liberal Religion of “Tolerance” | The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College Center for Vision and Values - A conservative think tank promoting truth and liberty through a vision of faith and freedom.

Do you have the mental capacity to speak your own thoughts? Just curious. It would be unfair of me to take advantage of your inability to communicate.

Well. Since you have nothing to say, you won't mind if I add you to my ignore list. Thanks for giving me advanced notice of your clueless nature. You've saved me a lot of time having to debate nothing.

Only the gutless put people on ignore.

 

[Norman]

This is a joke, right?

I know you have exceptionally low IQ, but damn...

Design us a country that exists without taxation, genius.

Let's hear it.

I don't need to. I know republicans generally stand for "your body, your wallet", while democrats stand for "your work, my pay".

There is a difference between 90% taxation (advocated by the regressive liberals) and <10% (advocated by right). Questions?

Anyway, clearly the left nowadays is regressive and opressive as one can be. Stalin would be proud. This is just one example...

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

You'd be happy to get rid of the military? Are you sure that claim would hold up to scrutiny of your past posts?

Where did I say that? Even if I did, please do dig up the posts that I didn't make.

For the record, do you even pay taxes? Then it's time to shut up.

 

[Jack4jill]

Design us a country that exists without taxation, genius.

Let's hear it.

I don't need to. I know republicans generally stand for "your body, your wallet", while democrats stand for "your work, my pay".

There is a difference between 90% taxation (advocated by the regressive liberals) and <10% (advocated by right). Questions?

Anyway, clearly the left nowadays is regressive and opressive as one can be. Stalin would be proud. This is just one example...

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

Okay, who provides those?

Do you say, drive on federal highways? Visit National Parks?

 

[Jack4jill]

Paul G. Kengor

I’ve said it before, and I’m hardly alone. Many have observed it. Liberals revere tolerance. They practically worship it. It’s like a religion to them. Well, now comes a study that supports the point.

A new survey by Pew Research finds that when it comes to teaching children, liberals place a far higher priority on teaching “tolerance” than teaching religion. That liberals do this in schools is abundantly clear, but they apparently do it in their homes as well.

In this, Pew finds, liberals are the opposite of conservatives. “The starkest ideological differences [between liberals and conservatives] are over the importance of teaching religious faith,” reports Pew. “Among those who have consistently conservative attitudes across a range of political values, 81 percent think it is especially important for children to be taught religious faith…. Among those with consistently liberal views, just 26 percent rate the teaching of religious faith as especially important, and only 11 percent regard it as among the most important child-rearing qualities.”

Moreover, finds the survey, a staggering 88 percent of “consistently liberal” Americans list tolerance as their most important value in teaching their children.

While this data is significant, it’s also limited. It depends first and foremost on how one defines “tolerance,” and especially how liberals professing tolerance define tolerance.

I believe, in general, that liberals are not actually tolerant. Liberals tolerate only what they what want to tolerate. They tolerate things they agree with—which, of course, isn’t tolerance. Tolerance is about accepting the often-difficult differences between you and someone you strongly disagree with, and respecting that person’s right to an opposing point of view. Obviously, that’s not liberalism. This could be demonstrated multiple ways, but consider two salient examples pervasive in daily headlines: liberals’ behavior regarding same-sex marriage and abortion.

Liberals are relentless in denouncing, demonizing, boycotting, attacking, picketing, prosecuting, suing, fining, and even threatening to jail people who disagree with them on same-sex marriage. If your family owns a barn in New York (or elsewhere) and declines to rent it to a gay couple for a wedding ceremony, because such an arrangement violates your religious beliefs and freedom, liberals will fine you $13,000. If you’re Elaine Photography in New Mexico and beg not to photograph a same-sex wedding, liberals will sue you. If you are the Kleins in Oregon and plead not to make a cake for a same-sex ceremony, you will be picketed, hauled before state commissions, and have your livelihood ruined by liberals. If you are Jack Phillips, a baker in Colorado, or a florist in any number of states, who likewise prefers not to service same-sex events, you will be threatened with imprisonment. If you are the owner of Chick-fil-A or other businesses, and you dare admit that you’re against redefining marriage because you believe your God says you can’t, liberals literally will assert at your death that Jesus is going to send you to hell. I could go on and on with such examples: Mozilla, Craig James, the owner of Barilla pasta, the governor of Arizona, etc., etc., etc.

Liberals refuse to tolerate those who refuse to redefine marriage.

As for abortion, liberals not only refuse to respect your opposition; they insist you pay for their abortions. From Hobby Lobby to the Little Sisters of the Poor, they’re making you pay. If you don’t, you will be fined mightily.

I could go on and on with other examples from other issues. Look at how liberals run the universities, the training grounds for their missionaries of diversity. The faculty at these colleges are 80-90 percent liberal, and conservatives are not only marginalized but often barred from speaking on campus or angrily protested by these self-professing champions of free speech and open-mindedness.

All of this tells us much about liberals, but it especially reveals the phoniness of their claims to “tolerance.”

In truth, what liberals really practice is a selective “tolerance.” And when that selective tolerance doesn’t extend to you and your viewpoint, they tell you that you’re against tolerance, that you’re against diversity, and that you “hate.”

All of which brings me back to the Pew survey. I think it reveals something even deeper. Many liberals have left religion because it doesn’t accord to their definition of what religion (or God) should be. They’ve jettisoned Christianity because certain aspects don’t accord to their worldview. Their Christianity is, at best, a kind of cafeteria Christianity, where they pick and choose the elements of the faith they like and discard those they don’t. It’s a selective Christianity.

Liberals are instead embracing the faith of tolerance. But here, too, it’s a selective faith.

And most ironic, this selective tolerance often excludes the religious—or at least the religious that liberals disagree with.

- See more at: The Liberal Religion of “Tolerance” | The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College Center for Vision and Values - A conservative think tank promoting truth and liberty through a vision of faith and freedom.

Do you have the mental capacity to speak your own thoughts? Just curious. It would be unfair of me to take advantage of your inability to communicate.

Well. Since you have nothing to say, you won't mind if I add you to my ignore list. Thanks for giving me advanced notice of your clueless nature. You've saved me a lot of time having to debate nothing.

Only the gutless put people on ignore.

Got a thread on that, in the Flame Zone, using his words.

 

[Lutroo]

Paul G. Kengor

I’ve said it before, and I’m hardly alone. Many have observed it. Liberals revere tolerance. They practically worship it. It’s like a religion to them. Well, now comes a study that supports the point.

A new survey by Pew Research finds that when it comes to teaching children, liberals place a far higher priority on teaching “tolerance” than teaching religion. That liberals do this in schools is abundantly clear, but they apparently do it in their homes as well.

In this, Pew finds, liberals are the opposite of conservatives. “The starkest ideological differences [between liberals and conservatives] are over the importance of teaching religious faith,” reports Pew. “Among those who have consistently conservative attitudes across a range of political values, 81 percent think it is especially important for children to be taught religious faith…. Among those with consistently liberal views, just 26 percent rate the teaching of religious faith as especially important, and only 11 percent regard it as among the most important child-rearing qualities.”

Moreover, finds the survey, a staggering 88 percent of “consistently liberal” Americans list tolerance as their most important value in teaching their children.

While this data is significant, it’s also limited. It depends first and foremost on how one defines “tolerance,” and especially how liberals professing tolerance define tolerance.

I believe, in general, that liberals are not actually tolerant. Liberals tolerate only what they what want to tolerate. They tolerate things they agree with—which, of course, isn’t tolerance. Tolerance is about accepting the often-difficult differences between you and someone you strongly disagree with, and respecting that person’s right to an opposing point of view. Obviously, that’s not liberalism. This could be demonstrated multiple ways, but consider two salient examples pervasive in daily headlines: liberals’ behavior regarding same-sex marriage and abortion.

Liberals are relentless in denouncing, demonizing, boycotting, attacking, picketing, prosecuting, suing, fining, and even threatening to jail people who disagree with them on same-sex marriage. If your family owns a barn in New York (or elsewhere) and declines to rent it to a gay couple for a wedding ceremony, because such an arrangement violates your religious beliefs and freedom, liberals will fine you $13,000. If you’re Elaine Photography in New Mexico and beg not to photograph a same-sex wedding, liberals will sue you. If you are the Kleins in Oregon and plead not to make a cake for a same-sex ceremony, you will be picketed, hauled before state commissions, and have your livelihood ruined by liberals. If you are Jack Phillips, a baker in Colorado, or a florist in any number of states, who likewise prefers not to service same-sex events, you will be threatened with imprisonment. If you are the owner of Chick-fil-A or other businesses, and you dare admit that you’re against redefining marriage because you believe your God says you can’t, liberals literally will assert at your death that Jesus is going to send you to hell. I could go on and on with such examples: Mozilla, Craig James, the owner of Barilla pasta, the governor of Arizona, etc., etc., etc.

Liberals refuse to tolerate those who refuse to redefine marriage.

As for abortion, liberals not only refuse to respect your opposition; they insist you pay for their abortions. From Hobby Lobby to the Little Sisters of the Poor, they’re making you pay. If you don’t, you will be fined mightily.

I could go on and on with other examples from other issues. Look at how liberals run the universities, the training grounds for their missionaries of diversity. The faculty at these colleges are 80-90 percent liberal, and conservatives are not only marginalized but often barred from speaking on campus or angrily protested by these self-professing champions of free speech and open-mindedness.

All of this tells us much about liberals, but it especially reveals the phoniness of their claims to “tolerance.”

In truth, what liberals really practice is a selective “tolerance.” And when that selective tolerance doesn’t extend to you and your viewpoint, they tell you that you’re against tolerance, that you’re against diversity, and that you “hate.”

All of which brings me back to the Pew survey. I think it reveals something even deeper. Many liberals have left religion because it doesn’t accord to their definition of what religion (or God) should be. They’ve jettisoned Christianity because certain aspects don’t accord to their worldview. Their Christianity is, at best, a kind of cafeteria Christianity, where they pick and choose the elements of the faith they like and discard those they don’t. It’s a selective Christianity.

Liberals are instead embracing the faith of tolerance. But here, too, it’s a selective faith.

And most ironic, this selective tolerance often excludes the religious—or at least the religious that liberals disagree with.

- See more at: The Liberal Religion of “Tolerance” | The Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College Center for Vision and Values - A conservative think tank promoting truth and liberty through a vision of faith and freedom.

Do you have the mental capacity to speak your own thoughts? Just curious. It would be unfair of me to take advantage of your inability to communicate.

Well. Since you have nothing to say, you won't mind if I add you to my ignore list. Thanks for giving me advanced notice of your clueless nature. You've saved me a lot of time having to debate nothing.

Only the gutless put people on ignore.

Only someone who is probably on the ignore list of several people would say something like that. Besides, I would be more than happy to debate the guy, but it's obvious that he has nothing to say. What was I supposed to do?

 

[Jack4jill]

Do you have the mental capacity to speak your own thoughts? Just curious. It would be unfair of me to take advantage of your inability to communicate.

Well. Since you have nothing to say, you won't mind if I add you to my ignore list. Thanks for giving me advanced notice of your clueless nature. You've saved me a lot of time having to debate nothing.

Only the gutless put people on ignore.

Only someone who is probably on the ignore list of several people would say something like that. Besides, I would be more than happy to debate the guy, but it's obvious that he has nothing to say. What was I supposed to do?

Ah, be a man about it.

 

[Norman]

I don't need to. I know republicans generally stand for "your body, your wallet", while democrats stand for "your work, my pay".

There is a difference between 90% taxation (advocated by the regressive liberals) and <10% (advocated by right). Questions?

Anyway, clearly the left nowadays is regressive and opressive as one can be. Stalin would be proud. This is just one example...

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

Okay, who provides those?

Do you say, drive on federal highways? Visit National Parks?

No, I am not currently driving on any federal highways, seeing as I am not even located in the USA. Did you know that USA requires those residing outside to pay taxes as well? That about puts your garbage argument to the garbage can where it belongs. Not that there was any merit even if that wasn't the case.

National parks... my ass. Is this seriously what you use an excuse to confiscate 40/50/60% of people's income? "Hey, you use something we forced you to provide, now, pay all of your income for daring to use those services!" The regressive logic...

 

[Jack4jill]

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

Okay, who provides those?

Do you say, drive on federal highways? Visit National Parks?

No, I am not currently driving on any federal highways, seeing as I am not even located in the USA. Did you know that USA requires those residing outside to pay taxes as well? That about puts your garbage argument to the garbage can where it belongs. Not that there was any merit even if that wasn't the case.

Well, you can renounce your citizenship? Just because you don't live here doesn't mean you don't have to pay up. You're a citizen. People who live here who aren't citizens also have to pay up. There is no free lunch, or road, or bridge, or school.

 

[Lutroo]

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

Okay, who provides those?

Do you say, drive on federal highways? Visit National Parks?

No, I am not currently driving on any federal highways, seeing as I am not even located in the USA. Did you know that USA requires those residing outside to pay taxes as well? That about puts your garbage argument to the garbage can where it belongs. Not that there was any merit even if that wasn't the case.

National parks... my ass. Is this seriously what you use an excuse to confiscate 40/50/60% of people's income?

It's also damn near impossible to renounce your citizenship. Why is that? If someone wants to leave the country, I say let them. I can only suppose that there is a nefarious purpose for not allowing someone to NOT be an American citizen.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Do you have the mental capacity to speak your own thoughts? Just curious. It would be unfair of me to take advantage of your inability to communicate.

Well. Since you have nothing to say, you won't mind if I add you to my ignore list. Thanks for giving me advanced notice of your clueless nature. You've saved me a lot of time having to debate nothing.

Only the gutless put people on ignore.

Only someone who is probably on the ignore list of several people would say something like that. Besides, I would be more than happy to debate the guy, but it's obvious that he has nothing to say. What was I supposed to do?

Don't reply. You haven't had anything of value to say so far, but I haven't put you on ignore.

 

[NYcarbineer]

For all the things the nation and states provide for you, what is a fair rate of taxation?

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

Okay, who provides those?

Do you say, drive on federal highways? Visit National Parks?

No, I am not currently driving on any federal highways, seeing as I am not even located in the USA. Did you know that USA requires those residing outside to pay taxes as well? That about puts your garbage argument to the garbage can where it belongs. Not that there was any merit even if that wasn't the case.

National parks... my ass. Is this seriously what you use an excuse to confiscate 40/50/60% of people's income? "Hey, you use something we forced you to provide, now, pay all of your income!" The regressive logic...

When did federal taxes ever take 60% of your income?

 

[Norman]

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

Okay, who provides those?

Do you say, drive on federal highways? Visit National Parks?

No, I am not currently driving on any federal highways, seeing as I am not even located in the USA. Did you know that USA requires those residing outside to pay taxes as well? That about puts your garbage argument to the garbage can where it belongs. Not that there was any merit even if that wasn't the case.

National parks... my ass. Is this seriously what you use an excuse to confiscate 40/50/60% of people's income?

It's also damn near impossible to renounce your citizenship. Why is that? If someone wants to leave the country, I say let them. I can only suppose that there is a nefarious purpose for not allowing someone to NOT be an American citizen.

"You can always leave" - the epitome of stupid liberal arguments.

Turns out, you can't, and that the regressives widely oppose that to the point of building walls (Soviet Union). Oopsie.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

Another non-starter

Name a conservative who wants slavery to be legal again.....

The 20% of Trump voters who still approve it of, and anyone who thinks the South should have won.

And you can back this up? Seriously, show where 20% want to reestablish slavery. Fucking psycho.

Exit Poll Says 20 Percent of Trump Supporters are Pro-Slavery?

I agree...about 20% of Trump supporters are fucking psycho, the remaining 80% just plain psycho.


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What abject nutbaggery... nobody is "pro" slavery. My God you folks are desperate.

 

[Jack4jill]

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

Okay, who provides those?

Do you say, drive on federal highways? Visit National Parks?

No, I am not currently driving on any federal highways, seeing as I am not even located in the USA. Did you know that USA requires those residing outside to pay taxes as well? That about puts your garbage argument to the garbage can where it belongs. Not that there was any merit even if that wasn't the case.

National parks... my ass. Is this seriously what you use an excuse to confiscate 40/50/60% of people's income?

It's also damn near impossible to renounce your citizenship. Why is that? If someone wants to leave the country, I say let them. I can only suppose that there is a nefarious purpose for not allowing someone to NOT be an American citizen.

Impossible? No.

 

[Soggy in NOLA]

The state does not provide me a single thing. At most 5%, I am fine with that. Fair rate would be 0% though.

Roads, bridges, schools, police, fire, courts, parks, hospitals, none of those you use?

I use all of those, none provided by the incompetent US government.

By the way, if libs had to actually pay for the government services, they would very quickly turn out to not be libs. Nope, they don't actually believe you should pay for govt services, that's a job for the productive non-parasites. Seeing as I didn't even agree to the services, I am absolutely fine with abusing them and paying zero for them.

Okay, who provides those?

Do you say, drive on federal highways? Visit National Parks?

No, I am not currently driving on any federal highways, seeing as I am not even located in the USA. Did you know that USA requires those residing outside to pay taxes as well? That about puts your garbage argument to the garbage can where it belongs. Not that there was any merit even if that wasn't the case.

National parks... my ass. Is this seriously what you use an excuse to confiscate 40/50/60% of people's income? "Hey, you use something we forced you to provide, now, pay all of your income!" The regressive logic...

When did federal taxes ever take 60% of your income?

Well, federal taxes at one point were up in the nineties. But, given all taxes together, especially in places like NY, can easily exceed 60%.