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Tolerance. The word turns up everywhere these days: Heads of State promote tolerance, religious groups practice tolerance, educators in universities and classrooms around the world preach the importance of religious and moral tolerance. Despite whom it is practicing or preaching tolerance, the effect is the same: individuals and groups alike achieve a moral superiority by being tolerant.

The concept of tolerance as a virtue is imbedded within our culture: the Old Testament story of obstinate, intolerant Jonah illustrates the virtue of tolerance. Jonah’s blind conviction that only the Jews deserve God’s forgiveness causes him to defy Yahweh’s order to go to Niveveh and tell the people to clean up their act; Jonah’s intolerance lands him in the belly of a whale for three days, and thus the next time Yahweh tells him to go to Niveveh he obeys. When the people of Niveveh repent, Jonah is furious – he had wished for the wrath of God to destroy those pagans. The story of Jonah clearly exemplifies the evils of intolerance.

In Ayn Rand’s enduring novel, The Fountainhead, Dominique Francon claims, ”…we must have tolerance for the opinions of others, because tolerance is the greatest virtue….” According to The Random House College Dictionary tolerance is ”a fair and objective attitude toward those whose opinions, practices, race, religion, nationality, or the like, differ from one’s own.”; The old English Dictionary defines it as ”the disposition to be patient with or indulgent to the opinions or practices of others; freedom from bigotry or undue severity in judging the conduct of others….”

"Case closed: tolerance is a positive virtue."
....Baruch Tenembaum

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