Recently, a friend of mine told me, by what he did, that tolerance is a virtue.
I beg to disagree.
In the name of tolerance every evil is exalted and proudly defended. A tolerance that allows sin to prosper - because it refuses to condemn and punish evil - is merely the accomplice of Satan.
The story of Eli in the Bible told us that much:
Eli was the high priest of Shiloh, and the last Israelite judge before the rule of the kings. His sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were specimens that were not cream but rose to the top - they took all the prime cuts of meat from sacrifices, and they made love with women at the sanctuary entrance. Eli knew all these, but he just told his sons not to do so - without any punishment.
But, by doing nothing to restrain his sons, Eli sent them to hell. The god prophesied to Eli that he will be punished for his tolerance (and his sons for their wrongdoings), with all of them dying in a brutal manner at a young age.
Go read the Books of Samuel.
1 comment:
Tolerance is not absolute tolerance. For example, being tolerant of intolerance completely defeats the purpose of tolerance.
Eli in that story here, though, sounds more like "don't give a damn" to me.
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