The Pastor's Ring

The Intolerance of Tolerance: Our Present State of Affairs
by Jesús Escobedo

The intolerance of “tolerance” cries out for a hearing. The progressive-statist far left in the United States has reached a crescendo in our society. It is time to redeem our society, culture, language, life, religion, government, and politics from the progressive-statist far left in all of life, especially within the halls of the Christian faith, the halls of justice, the halls of education, the family, and the halls of government. Political correctness has accomplished more destruction than what the radicals in the Middle East could ever dream of.  Perhaps all this has been by design. “Social justice,” “diversity,” “tolerance,” “fairness,” “equality,” “gender,” “healthcare,” and other such terms have been so redefined that they do not have significance any more in the arena of ideas or of living. These terms or words have become the code words of progressive-statists. Most people, the uninformed, live within a blissful fog of nothingness and have no regard for truth and the issues of life. It seems that Nietzsche, Freud, Darwin, Wilson, Roosevelt, Sagan, Sanger, the “war on poverty,” and many such persons and movements have won the battle of ideas and life living in the post-modern age. In the meantime, most persons have turned over their living, life, freedom, and brains, willingly or unwillingly, to the ardent pursuit of pleasure while the progressive-statists turn up the heat. Many others, victims of progressivism, are so busy living life and making a living that the “human din” has drowned them out to the destructive realities statist progressivism.

The contemporary belief in “tolerance” by many persons today is in reality intolerance. The progressive-statists, men and women from all walks of life, vehemently demand that society and people conform to their worldview. If you do not agree with them you are labeled “intolerant,” “racist,” “homophobic,” and many other such, now derogatory, names. Is it not “intolerant” of them to demand “tolerance,” when they constantly negate, demean, depreciate, and despise any point view that does not conform to their worldview? Who then is being “intolerant”?

Among the many issues that progressivism holds dear are biological evolution, eugenics, sex, abortion, social justice, healthcare, and equality. These are some of the issues they champion in their quest to obtain, reach, and accomplish their many “utopias.” They are proud of the fact that they care about “justice,” “fairness,” “health,” “poverty,” “equality,” “race,” and all the other injustices of “right wing” societies (religious or political).

Two of the many issues that progressivism has no tolerance for are differing points of view about sex and the Christian faith. The latter is particularly ironic since some progressive persons claim to be Christian or religious. The other matter, sex, has reached a most destructive level. Progressivism has redefined sex so as to champion immorality, sexual perversion, and the destruction of the family and the fabric of society. Any point of view, or worldview, on these issues, that is contrary to their view is immediately, and without mercy, labeled intolerant. They believe in “diversity,” but they do not allow for it when it comes to any point of view contrary to their own. This is intolerance, an “intolerance” that enslaves people to totalitarian tyranny.