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I want to simply live my life in peace, raise my children according to God's wishes, and not bother anyone else with my burdens. I am intolerant of those who wish to take that away from me. I'm intolerant of those who wish to bring harm to my children, either physically or mentally, especially in public schools. I'm intolerant of those who wish to take yet more of my earnings from me for foolish reasons such as "climate change." I'm intolerant of people who want to force me to take a drug I don't want. I'm intolerant of those who think abortion is "health care." I'm intolerant of those who think I should suppress my heritage, my lifestyle, my religion, and my personal beliefs, so as to not offend others.

Without intolerance, we would immediately be overrun by the least tolerant among us. In fact, we already are. Intolerance is a good thing. How many places in the Bible is God intolerant of one thing or another?

I enjoy this substack but I can't help but disagree with this entire entry. God bless.

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Aug 18, 2022Liked by BOPBadger

Yes, intolerance is manifestation of conditions. To improve, we need to get to roots. First, we have 4200 religions in the world. Each is intolerant, they promise some benefits to their members that non-believers do not have. They all have an omnipotent prophet of deity that are so impotent that they need a protection by killing everyone that does not boo the same or is perceived insulting these non existent medieval criminals.

It takes government armies to prevent Hindus, Coptic Christians, Buddhists and Muslims from killing each other. Muslims are openly stating their purpose in life as killing of nonbelievers, Jews and Christians and in African countries having an impotent militaries they are succeeding in this genocide. The justification and encouragement for those disgusting acts believers find in their unholy books.

The top of intolerance is slavery. Every country, every nation in the past was practicing slavery. Muslims are practicing the habit still now. Minority of Buddhists in Tibet were served by majority of slaves kept in fear and subject to atrocious punishments. Chinese army was regarded by those slaves as liberators, of course the Buddhist monks being stripped of their slaves regarded Chinese army as oppressors.

The religion was from the days we left caves an instrument of oppression and the smarter ones declaring themselves shamans and priests controlled the population. I wonder how much the virgins facing being sacrificed praised their priests and deity. The religion also allowed colonizers to rule with iron fist. The Catholics coming to the new world killed millions of Buffalo to starve the native population, gave them blankets infected with smallpox, in South America Amazonian natives were hunted with impunity to just a few decades ago. In Central America natives were given various color patters to wear to distinguish where they are from. Now this clothing is collectors item. In Australia it was outlawed to poison the wells of aborigines just a few decades ago.

Yes, intolerance towards a group different in some way from our group was just that: Intolerable. The deadliest difference persisting to this time is difference in what religion of the 4200 we chose. And this is not just a matter of uneducated developing places. Protestants and Catholics in Ireland showed unbelievable cruelty in killing each other. Their quest to show which religion is more potent killed close to 100,000. If it were not for UN forces, Muslims and Orthodox Christians in former Yugoslavia would be still killing each other as well as Coptic Christians and Muslims in Cyprus.

This intolerance is transformed to political arena and in these days candidates for some political party in Philippines and other countries are not sure that they will be alive at the end of the campaign. The last number I red was 10000 killed for the difference in the political affiliation.

USA, country believing to be on the top of the food chain developed another religion. Green movement. People have very little to do with global warming, but any scientist that is willing to study the climate and dares to publish a slightly different version from the version government is using to control people is financially destroyed. Now everyone is booing the green doctrine.

People do destroy the planet and people are on the way to meet dinosaurs. The science will buy us a couple decades, but the mother nature has a weapon people can fight only sometimes. Nature always wins and everything in nature is subject to equilibrium. Monoculture of Homo species that infested, consecrated and polluted every niche of the planet cannot survive. The numbers will come down. But it is not because a climate change. In some areas the climate change will be welcome. Properties along the Hudson Bay in Canada are a great investment on anticipation ow warming. The 5 degrees rise in temperature will force people elsewhere to make some changes, but we surely survive.

Our grandchildren will hate us, for good reason and soon. The problems we prepared for them people they do not understand, yet. There will be no jobs, no shelter, no food, all they will know is war and suffering. That has nothing to do with global warming and everything to do with overpopulation.

Anyone that would want to lower the global warming would have to restore forests and stop covering the planet with heat absorbing concrete. Our greed will not let us. we will breed and breed, in this respect we are as smart as the yeast making our beer. Once they overpopulate they all perish by polluting their space.

The planet will go through the cycles of ice ages and steaming jungles. High carbon content in the air and warm climate allowed for the huge trees that created our inexhaustible coal supply. There were no people then to cause the warming and or the glaciation. These threats are only government whip to profit through the green dictate.

Until we reduce the overpopulation I do not see people getting more tolerant, just the opposite.

Jerry

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