Brian Ross wrote on May 11
th, 2013 at 10:28pm:
Yadda wrote on May 11
th, 2013 at 9:01pm:
[quote author=Yadda link=1367461526/103#103 date=1368269157]
Being a bigot means that a person [i.e. the bigot!] [objects to others with differing opinion(s), expressing their opinion(s).
It does not mean that i am a bigot, BECAUSE i express an opinion, Brian.
I've never claimed that, Yadda.
You are a bigot because of the content of the opinion you express,
....not because you're actually expressing an opinion.
That you seem unable to detect that your opinions are bigoted is understandable, afterall bigots always assume they are right, particularly about issues of religion...
Brian_Ross,
So.
You claim that i am a bigot, because e.g., i say that ISLAM is a deceitful, vicious, violent philosophy ?
Is that it ?
Truth = = bigotry ?
No it isn't.
Truth should always be declared, fearlessly, ....
no matter the cost. [Matthew 16:25,26]
Love of truth [by some!] is what protects our rights, and our very liberty.
yadda said....
Quote:Many people do not want to believe, .....the truth.
Many people today,
hate, .....the truth.
And yet the truth is never diminished, by those who reject the truth.
The integrity of truth remains intact, even though some will always reject it.
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yadda said....
Quote:
Whenever we become tolerant of evil [in our midst], we ourselves, become evil.
Think about this;
If we consent to live with evil [in our midst], it is because we have become tolerant of evil.
And if we are tolerant of evil, it is because we now, ARE evil.
Our leaders have chosen to embrace darkness, and lies.
Those 'leaders of men', have become a group of people who refuse to discern between good and evil, between truth and falsehood.
No one, nobody among them, will today criticise the evil [i.e. ISLAM], which they [our leaders] have chosen to embrace as a 'partner'.
We become, what we are tolerant of.
If we tolerate evil, and wickedness, in our midst,
...we become those, who are evil, OURSELVES.
Tolerance of what is evil, is not 'tolerance'.
Tolerance of what is evil, is not a 'virtue'.
It is wickedness!
Truth, is saying that white IS white.
Truth, is saying that black IS black.
Truth is condemning the guilty.
Truth is defending the innocent.
Truth is rejecting political correctness, by having the courage to expose, and condemn lies.
The love of truth is that what comes from God [from God's spirit within us].
Being 'tolerant' of what is evil, is not 'good', nor is it not a display of 'love'.
...but rather, it is a display of craven stupidity, and [moral] cowardice.
If we tolerate evil, and wickedness, in others [in those in our midst], we will become spiritually lost [which is ALWAYS exhibited in a 'people' by emotions and 'feelings' like, confusion, indecisivenesses, depression, etc.]
Jeremiah 9:3
....they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the LORD.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
George Orwell
"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
George Orwell
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
I can understand a child being afraid of the dark, but I cannot understand an adult being afraid of the light.
Plato
Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves.
- Aesop
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence.
- Charles Austin Beard, American Historian, 1874-
1948