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The Truth About Tolerance: Pluralism, Diversity and the Culture Wars Paperback – March 28, 2005

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  • Paperback: 207 pages
  • Publisher: IVP Academic; PRINT-ON-DEMAND edition (March 28, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0830827870
  • ISBN-13: 978-0830827879
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe new tolerance is not worth tolerating
By Bill Muehlenberg VINE VOICE on January 4, 2006
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This book is about how a good concept - tolerance - has been redefined and subverted by the secular left. Tolerance, properly understood, is a useful personal and social good. But stripped of its original meaning, it has become a weapon in the culture wars.

Tolerance originally meant being able to respect a person while disagreeing with their ideas, beliefs or behaviors. Today it has come to mean accepting what your opponent says, believes or does. If someone today objects to something like abortion on demand or same-sex marriage, he or she is labeled as intolerant, bigoted and narrow-minded.

Thus any person who now expresses an opinion or makes a moral critique which does not fit in with our politically correct culture is deemed to have committed the gravest of sins: being intolerant. But as the authors show, the ability to exercise moral discernment and make critical evaluations is at the heart of genuine democracy and the social good.

By demanding conformity to the values regime of the secular left, the goal posts in value making have been shifted. The authors show that the new tolerance is closely aligned with moral relativism and the postmodern distrust of truth. But without true truth and moral absolutes, the entire concept of tolerance becomes meaningless.

We can only tolerate something if we do not agree with it in the first place. We do not tolerate something we like or agree with. But if there is no absolute truth, and moral values are simple subjective preferences, then convictions and beliefs become mere preferences and tastes. No one needs to tolerate another person's preference for chocolate ice cream. No one needs to tolerate another person's taste for classical music.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsBoth Concise and Complete!
By Nyghtewynd VINE VOICE on August 27, 2008
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Stetson and Conti succeed in producing a text that both adequately describes and succinctly encapsulates most important aspects of the history and boundaries of true tolerance. What passes for tolerance today, they argue, is not really tolerance in the classical sense, but a specific sort of ideological viewpoint which actively works to suppress rather than encourage discussion and diversity. It's a well-argued case in a great book, and I recommend it highly.
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3.0 out of 5 starsFood for thought, but does not convey the best understanding of tolerance
By True Catholic on August 1, 2015
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At the outset, it must be admitted that if their are only two possible positions—the problem and the solution—then this book is a part of the problem. This is primarily because of the strong connection between tolerance and liberalism and the failure of the authors to fully understand both concepts.

But before I critique, let me evaluate the book as a whole.

There are some chapters worth reading and others not worth reading. Here is a list of those worth reading.

5. The Truth About Truth
6. Truth and Tolerance
7. American Secularism
11. Ten Truths of Tolerance 1
12. Ten Truths of Tolerance 2

The most highly recommended is Chapter 7. There is a great deal of food for thought in Chapters 11 and 12 and I will comment later on the "Ten Truths."

Let me begin with a discussion on tolerance.

The authors do present a correct definition of tolerance: "...a patience toward a practice or opinion that one disapproves of" (p. 140).

There is much more that they have not said (and that doesn't appear in their book) that is needed to fully understand tolerance.

(1) Theoretical dogmatic intolerance
(2) One must distinguish between the opinions that people hold and the people who hold them.
(3) There is a distinction between opinions (or beliefs) the the expression of those opinions (or beliefs).
(4) Practices and those who practice
(5) All opinions might concern either matters of taste or matters of fact.
(6) There is a distinction between three possible agents of toleration: the State, society, and individual persons.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsFive Stars
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A great read- clear and concise.
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