Leo Volont
Registered Senior Member
Against Religious Tolerance
One of the most damaging attacks that the prevalent modern secular atheism has imposed upon Religion – all Religions – is the insistence upon Religious Toleration. You see, nowadays, almost every cultural and intellectual influence comes from secular and atheist sources, and so even quite Religious People, who aren’t eternally vigilant in evaluating each and every one of their subtle mental and emotional assumptions are likely to pick up some pernicious secular and atheistic influences, not because they would consciously choose to believe such things, but only because such notions are ubiquitous and seem to creep in as though by a cultural osmosis. One assumption is that we should be Religiously Tolerant.
But we need to suppose that the primary philosophical basis that makes any form of Religious Tolerance possible can be only one of two things or both, and they are, firstly, that all Religions are equally False, or, secondly, that the Truth and details of any Religion is inconsequential.
Now, I can understand an armed truce, and an enforced suspension of violent compulsion being used as a factor in missionary outreach programs. But the notion of Religious Tolerance has been taken to the extreme of supposing that all discussion needs to concede that the Spiritual, Metaphysical and Revelatory Assertions of any Religion must be conceded by those of other Religions who hold quite different sets of Assumptions. Well, somewhere this must be perpetuating a lie. Now, logically, both sides of a contradiction cannot both be True, though they both may be false. If Discussions are left open, and dialogue allowed to continue for perhaps a century or two or three, then there is a chance that the Truth might eventually come out. But the habit of Religious Tolerance makes this impossible. The more insidious threat though, and one I have often noticed, is that people subtly stop believing strongly in their own Religion, or suppose that strong belief is no longer required. They take Tolerance as indicating that all Religions are equally True (when they should be more careful in their Logic which would show them that in fact Tolerance only supposes an equal falsity), and so they are sucked into considering the details of Religion as inconsequential. Take the Bishops mistake with Vatican Two which allowed that Protestantism was a valid form of Christianity – it garnered no reciprocal respect from the Protestants while throwing open the door for Catholics who saw Protestantism as more convenient than their own Church. They lost that sense of distinction for the Qualities that made their own Religion a tried and True Path to God, while blinding them to the deficits in Protestantism that would identify them as evil and essentially antichristical. Again, this entire cultural atmosphere of indoctrinated apathy induces a blasé spirit that is quite careless regarding the actual Truth of all of the matters involved.
Then there is another problem with Religious Tolerance, which is being demonstrated now most widely in Europe. Muslims wish to gain every possible benefit from having Secular Atheist Europeans grant them the widest Religious Toleration while they themselves decline playing by the same rules. Religious Tolerance to Muslims implies to them that now all of Europe must now live by Islamic Law straight from the Koran or be accused of not being tolerant enough. It quite disarms Europe in the face of this very serious Cultural Invasion. Now, if we had kept up the traditions of appreciating and allowing a serious Religious Discussion, where opponents are allowed to believe in their own arguments while being allowed to believe that those they oppose are false, then, although we might have suffered from some very uncomfortable dinner parties where the guest lists included a mix of Protestants, Catholics and Masonic Atheists, but at least we would not now be intellectually and civilly disarmed and helpless before the Muslims who now are intent upon using against us our now institutionalized habits of Tolerance.
If our hands were not tied, if our mouths were not gagged, we would be able to put forth cogent arguments demonstrating that Mohamed could not possibly be the great prophet he claimed himself to have been – we could point out the discrepancies in his career, his prevarications, his moral and religious wafflings, his ethical and spiritual compromises of principle, and the shortfalls of Islam as compared to the other Higher Religions. We would be armed to break the Confidence that is now being mobilized to destroy us as a cohesive Culture. But we have bound ourselves to silence, while they use the utmost duress on their own Peoples to suppress any discussion and to prevent even the most momentary of self-doubts.
Our Secular Atheists, by imposing Religious Tolerance upon us, thought they won their battle, but what they have done, in the long run, was to disarm us in our fight against a truly evil Religion. They destroyed any advocacy for the Good only to open the Gates for the Bad.
One of the most damaging attacks that the prevalent modern secular atheism has imposed upon Religion – all Religions – is the insistence upon Religious Toleration. You see, nowadays, almost every cultural and intellectual influence comes from secular and atheist sources, and so even quite Religious People, who aren’t eternally vigilant in evaluating each and every one of their subtle mental and emotional assumptions are likely to pick up some pernicious secular and atheistic influences, not because they would consciously choose to believe such things, but only because such notions are ubiquitous and seem to creep in as though by a cultural osmosis. One assumption is that we should be Religiously Tolerant.
But we need to suppose that the primary philosophical basis that makes any form of Religious Tolerance possible can be only one of two things or both, and they are, firstly, that all Religions are equally False, or, secondly, that the Truth and details of any Religion is inconsequential.
Now, I can understand an armed truce, and an enforced suspension of violent compulsion being used as a factor in missionary outreach programs. But the notion of Religious Tolerance has been taken to the extreme of supposing that all discussion needs to concede that the Spiritual, Metaphysical and Revelatory Assertions of any Religion must be conceded by those of other Religions who hold quite different sets of Assumptions. Well, somewhere this must be perpetuating a lie. Now, logically, both sides of a contradiction cannot both be True, though they both may be false. If Discussions are left open, and dialogue allowed to continue for perhaps a century or two or three, then there is a chance that the Truth might eventually come out. But the habit of Religious Tolerance makes this impossible. The more insidious threat though, and one I have often noticed, is that people subtly stop believing strongly in their own Religion, or suppose that strong belief is no longer required. They take Tolerance as indicating that all Religions are equally True (when they should be more careful in their Logic which would show them that in fact Tolerance only supposes an equal falsity), and so they are sucked into considering the details of Religion as inconsequential. Take the Bishops mistake with Vatican Two which allowed that Protestantism was a valid form of Christianity – it garnered no reciprocal respect from the Protestants while throwing open the door for Catholics who saw Protestantism as more convenient than their own Church. They lost that sense of distinction for the Qualities that made their own Religion a tried and True Path to God, while blinding them to the deficits in Protestantism that would identify them as evil and essentially antichristical. Again, this entire cultural atmosphere of indoctrinated apathy induces a blasé spirit that is quite careless regarding the actual Truth of all of the matters involved.
Then there is another problem with Religious Tolerance, which is being demonstrated now most widely in Europe. Muslims wish to gain every possible benefit from having Secular Atheist Europeans grant them the widest Religious Toleration while they themselves decline playing by the same rules. Religious Tolerance to Muslims implies to them that now all of Europe must now live by Islamic Law straight from the Koran or be accused of not being tolerant enough. It quite disarms Europe in the face of this very serious Cultural Invasion. Now, if we had kept up the traditions of appreciating and allowing a serious Religious Discussion, where opponents are allowed to believe in their own arguments while being allowed to believe that those they oppose are false, then, although we might have suffered from some very uncomfortable dinner parties where the guest lists included a mix of Protestants, Catholics and Masonic Atheists, but at least we would not now be intellectually and civilly disarmed and helpless before the Muslims who now are intent upon using against us our now institutionalized habits of Tolerance.
If our hands were not tied, if our mouths were not gagged, we would be able to put forth cogent arguments demonstrating that Mohamed could not possibly be the great prophet he claimed himself to have been – we could point out the discrepancies in his career, his prevarications, his moral and religious wafflings, his ethical and spiritual compromises of principle, and the shortfalls of Islam as compared to the other Higher Religions. We would be armed to break the Confidence that is now being mobilized to destroy us as a cohesive Culture. But we have bound ourselves to silence, while they use the utmost duress on their own Peoples to suppress any discussion and to prevent even the most momentary of self-doubts.
Our Secular Atheists, by imposing Religious Tolerance upon us, thought they won their battle, but what they have done, in the long run, was to disarm us in our fight against a truly evil Religion. They destroyed any advocacy for the Good only to open the Gates for the Bad.
