Get on with your intolerable babbling.
Dear Danby:
Great logic: never tolerate the intolerable or it may agitate to find you intolerable. Sin is intolerable to God and He will put someone in hell for all eternity out of His Divine Justice for being unrepentant! Is it not intolerable that the liberals find the Orthodox Roman Catholic Mass of the centuries, the Tridentine Mass, intolerable?
j hughes dunphy
http://www.theorthodoxromancatholic.com
The fact is that toleration is a practical moral good, not an absolute one. It is sometimes necessary, in other words, to tolerate some evil so that some good, which is much greater, can be preserved.
But this is part and parcel of the tragedy of fallen Man, not his glory, and that's the point Fr. Longnecker, in his endlessly deferential and polite liberal way, misses. Contemporary liberalism's incessant propaganda to the contrary notwithstanding, capital-T Tolerance is NOT a good in and of itself--it can only be understood in relation to genuine moral goods such as love and prudence.
The exact problem today is precisely that "nobody wants to dispute tolerance is a virtue." If more people did dispute that tolerance is a virtue in and of itself, we wouldn't have many of the problems to which he so often refers. It is a relatively recent and obviously diabolic convention that tolerance is ipso facto virtuous, rather than being an unfortunate necessity under narrowly prescribed circumstances.
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