I'm a tolerant person...

[trendy_nihilist]

Missed the Simpson's 20th yesterday. Yay. Loved The Tracey Ullman Show. Etc

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[d_willrobinson]

They actually put a lot of effort into this. That's really frickin' sad.

Gotta say though, they are equal-opportunity haters.

[cynical_bombast]

Being tolerant is something I like to consider myself as well, but a while back I came to a conclusion: that I was no longer going to tolerate intolerance. Don't know if you've read Sam Harris's book The End of Faith or not, but he makes an excellent point that masquerading anything under the guise of religion immediately gives one a "get out of jail free card" if you will. In other words, it's the one thing that we aren't allowed to dismiss or look at critically, and all in the name of tolerance.

I got accused of intolerance on my LJ a while back due to an anti-Christian piece. I don't care what people believe in: god, allah, buddha, krishna, or the flying spaghetti monster, but I have the right to criticize their fallacious beliefs. And when they in their religion step over the line, as these fucks clearly do day in and day out, then we have the right to speak out and fight against them.

That doesn't mean you're intolerant. Rather, fighting intolerance means you're practicing the highest form of tolerance.

[trendy_nihilist]

I'm tired of Baptists letting these people be Baptist with them.

People can make all the points they want--the truth is, we all know an asshole when we see it. It looks like this:

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I've never been directly accused of intolerance, which is odd, because I'm just as asshole as everyone else.

[cynical_bombast]

Oh, and what the hell was that shit about "You'll eat your children?"

Is that some crazy obscure verse from Revelation or something?

And don't you find it ironic that in actuality, if one believes in transubstantiation, the children are actually eating their father?