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Tearing Down the Walls: More Than Tolerance

May 5, 2011

“Jesus showed us that you can bring who you are, all that makes you different, distinct, and unique, … all of your ‘particularity,’ bring it all into the household of God.” (from this sermon by the Rev. Dr. Kenneth E. Kovacs, Catonsville Presbyterian Church.)

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Tolerance is a Floor, Not a Ceiling

July 13, 2010

Tolerance should never be mistaken as radically different from intolerance. Thomas Paine best responded to this common error in his book, “The Rights of Man”, when he wrote that tolerance was “not the opposite of Intolerance, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms.” The one, Paine wrote, assumes the right of withholding liberty, while the other assumes the right of granting it.

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