In the world we have all lived in for the last 6 days, with so much chaos and pain, grieving and self reflection, I stumbled upon a message from a wise spiritual leader.
Tolerance is not a Christian virtue. Let me be very clear: without discussion and dialogue, we never learn. I have a very diverse group of wise and intelligent people that I learn from every day because we dialogue together. We may not always agree, and most of us have the ability to stand up and say “well I see where your philosophy is from, but I cannot make that leap for myself at this time”.
Part of where we have gone so very wrong is we have practiced tolerance and to stop talking. When the entire time we should have been practicing talking and sharing, and to rebuke tolerance of things that do not serve us.
I am going to use covid shots as the example since this space about healthcare and fighting against pharma harm. When most of us (myself included) who chose to not get a covid shot, what was the first thing we did? We shut our mouths. We kept it a secret that we did not get them. Out of fear. Because we spent the entire day and night hearing that we didn’t deserve an ICU bed if we did not get a covid shot. We deserved to die of Covid. We should pay higher insurance premiums. We should be shunned from holiday dinner, time with family, and fired from our jobs. So we sat by and just said nothing. TOLERATED the berating and belittling. In reflection, what should we have done? We should have stood up and said I am a person of faith, a person of knowledge, and I will not be spoken to or treated like this because of my values and virtue. I share my temperance with you. I stand with fortitude in my beliefs to face this challenge, and prudence to make the right moral decisions for my life.
Prudence: Practical wisdom to make sound decisions aligned with God’s will.
Justice: Fairness and giving each person their due, including honoring God and others.
Fortitude (Courage): Strength to face challenges, endure suffering, and uphold moral principles.
Temperance: Self-control and moderation in desires and actions, maintaining balance.
We have entered a period of time where the false narrative that tolerance is a virtue needs to end. Stand strong and tall in your faith. Focus on the true virtues above, and shine light into the darkness.
Dr. F, thank you for broaching this topic. The key to your position is “honoring God’s will” which is an aspiration ridiculed in our time. We will remain stalwart.
Political Correctness was invented by the Soviet Russians during the time of Lenin. It is to muzzle free speech and anesthetize public discourse.
Here is your topic word “tolerate” defined by Webster in 1828 and by Merriam-Webster in 2025. Notice the drift.
See also what’s happened to the word discrimination, no longer usable in its more general sense.
TOLERATE, verb
1828
To suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hinderance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; as, to tolerate opinions or practices
2025
to allow to be or to be done without prohibition, hindrance, or contradiction
to put up with
learn to tolerate one another
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DISCRIMINATION, noun
1828
The act of distinguishing; the act of making or observing a difference; distinction; as the discrimination between right and wrong.
2025
prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment
racial discrimination
The mask is also a good example. We refused to wear them and didn’t tolerate anyone mandating covering our faces to enter the public arena. Even here in TX, most people just went along with it. And some of them that didn’t agree with masking but did it anyway would ask me what the big deal was if it made people feel better. As if we were the problem and not the unconstitutional mandates that came down in every state. Not all of us just went along with it and that is why a tireless and determined small group of people can change history.