Wednesday, October 12, 2011

The Totalitarianism of Tolerance

The left loves to think of themselvs as tolerant and accepting while accusing the right opposite. So, who is more fundamentally more tolerant, the left or the right? I would argue that the rightn is far more tolerant and I will show you why.
I was reading in Moses chapter four the other day where it talks about the council in heaven where the father asked who should be sent. Satan stood before the father and presented his plan to save everyone but was ultimately rejected.
What stood out to me was the fact that the Father stood by and allowed Satan to present himself and plan in place of the Plan of Salvation. Contrast this to Nehor in the Book of Alma. Nehor went around teaching his doctrine, but what happened when he spoke to someone he disagreed with, he killed him. We see this in the city of Amminihiah and in at the end of Heleman and the begining of 3 Nephi where the believers werengatheredntogether to be killed for the things they believed in. Notice these people were not guilty breaking any laws, they were deemed worthy of death for what they believed.
In the 135 section of he D&C, we learn that one of the indepsensible aspects of a government is to preserve the freedom of concouse. The freedom to think freely for one self. One way Satan seeks to destroy the freedom of concouse is to labal those who apose him with a labal that is undesirable. For example, if you disagree with left on race issues your a racist. If you disagree with conclusions of global warming you are ant-science. Who wants to be labeled these things.
We should not be suprised to see Satan following the same pattern that he has always followed, to silance those who are a threat to his kingdom, he does this by marginalizing and labeling them. For example, in Calaforia those who were opposed to proposition 8, the name of the constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man an a woman were labeled as hatmongers.
The scriptures teach us to be firm and steadfast in our minds. As time goes on we will need to be even stronger and more committed to what we believe, the mocking and labeling from the great and spaciouse building will become louder and more cutting.

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