Posted in apologetics, pluralism, tolerance on 21 April 2008 | 6 Comments »
Well I’ve finally dug myself out from under a pile of year-end marking and grad has come and gone, so I thought I should at least wrap up some of the topics we covered over the past few weeks of my apologetics class. We spent the last few classes talking about the challenge [...]
Posted in politics, tolerance on 27 September 2007 | 4 Comments »
David has some good thoughts on why Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia University may have been a missed opportunity. I don’t think anyone would want to minimize the seriousness or the danger of some of Ahmadinejad’s views. Some of the statements attributed to this man, particularly regarding the historicity of the Holocaust are nothing [...]
Posted in pluralism, tolerance on 8 June 2006 | 8 Comments »
Many of you will know that I have an ongoing interest in the question of how to live as a Christian in a pluralistic society. On the surface it seems like an impossibility. Ideological pluralism rules out any kind of exclusive claim on the ground that, given a plurality of opinions, it is [...]
Posted in pluralism, tolerance on 12 April 2006 | 4 Comments »
For those who have endured my previous ramblings on the subject of tolerance, there is an interesting discussion going on around a ‘Christian’ legal challenge for the ‘right’ to be intolerant. Do religious believers have the ‘right’ to propagate their views (in this case on homosexual behaviour) or is that ‘right’ trumped by tolerance? [...]
Posted in tolerance on 7 November 2005 | 11 Comments »
So after a week of digesting some very interesting thoughts on tolerance it seems to me that the issue boils down to the question of whether or not we are fit to judge anyone other than ourselves. I posed a question at the end of the last post about the demands of love versus the [...]
Posted in tolerance on 27 October 2005 | 18 Comments »
Indulge me one discussion on a potentially inflammatory topic. The unique ‘moment’ that we exist in is one characterized by varying opinions concerning the best approach to the ‘religious question’. Divisive arguments on any number of ‘hot button’ topics (often issues of morality) are increasingly framed around ideals of inclusion and, particularly, tolerance. At first [...]
