Totalitarian toleration
An interesting quote from an interesting article: The author is talking about how respect for other religions should not demand the faithful of any faith to give up their unique claims to truth. Instead, since Jews and Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, and Buddhist acknowledge a reality man cannot comprehend, this author suggests each regard the other with respect, studying the other to gain greater and richer understanding of his own faith. He concludes with this–
“The new imperialism of western relativism imposes tolerance in the manner of a totalitarian system, forcing the religions of the world to give up all that is most dear to them in return for a vague ultimate Reality that no one can recognize as their own. Any religious diversity that truly matters is obliterated in return for an ambiguous, secure unity that supposedly brings peace. Is this not the essence of totalitarianism? ”
http://www.blessed-sacrament.org/christianityandother.html
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
