Being tolerant is fine depending on what you're tolerant of. Homosexuality is one thing I am not fine with people tolerating. Teaching children to tolerate it only creates more confusion and more division in our society. Tolerance isn't a concept that should be taught at an early age to begin with.
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"Being tolerant is fine depending on what you're tolerant of."
Maybe you should look up the definition of tolerance, because it means "Accepting something you don't like", if you only accept things you like, it's not tolerating, it's being an asshole and a bigot.
"Homosexuality is one thing I am not fine with people tolerating."
We've already established you're an asshole, but now you're one of the worst ones too.
"Teaching children to tolerate it only creates more confusion and more division in our society."
Lie. If everyone thought their children it was okay, we wouldn't be having this conversation in one generation. On the other hand, if children are thought it is bad, they'll have some bad conflict with homosexuals.
"Tolerance isn't a concept that should be taught at an early age to begin with."
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Being tolerant is fine depending on what you're tolerant of. Blacks are one group of people I am not fine with whites tolerating. Teaching children to tolerate them only creates more confusion and more division in our society, and might even lead to something as abominable as mixed-race marriage. Tolerance isn't a concept that should be taught at an early age to begin with.
More confusion and division?
Well, if everybody said "It's not really my business, just don't do it in public" and stopped acting like they were personally affected by homosexuals, that would be great.
But some people think for some reason that they're personally affected by it, which is just weird.
(b) Tolerance isn't a concept that should be taught at an early age to begin with.(/b)
Based on this line alone, I'm calling a poe. I'm HOPING poe.
He makes a complete idiot of himself in the first sentence. And no, we shouldn't be teaching our kids tolerance. We should be teaching them fundy morals, like hating those you don't understand or agree with, pushing your beliefs on others even when they don't want to hear it for the 10^100,000,000 time, considering paranoia a good thing, idolizing a two thousand year old book, rejecting truth and logic and science, promoting ignorance as a virtue, etc. THESE are really good for our kids, and gives us hope of a bright future. What bullshit.
I thought Jesus was very tolerant. Spent time with lepers, which was taboo at the time, prostitutes and a bevy of sinners.
He may not be too tolerant of you, though.
"Tolerance isn't a concept that should be taught at an early age to begin with."
That's RIGHT! If Little Timmy is a different colour to you, you're totally justified in pushing him down the stairs.
(This is sarcasm, by the way.)
Now I understand the need for home schooling. Because if you teach your little darlings to be intolerant, they will turn into nasty, judgmental little brats, and will (rightly) get the shit beaten out of them if they express your opinions in a public place.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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