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Article: Humanism and tolerance.(Humanism and Tolerance)
- Article from:
- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- December 22, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Council for Democratic and Secular Humanism, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Intolerance and its corollary, the persecution of minorities, is not a modern phenomenon. Entire communities have the right to think for themselves, the right to live where they choose, and even the right to live. Being "different" was, for many, in essence, an a priori vice. "We" are better than "them." "They" are inferior to "us." "We" want to be the only rulers, the decision-markers, the survivors. "They" can go to hell, because, if "we" let "them" have the same rights as ourselves, society is endangered.
The list of intolerant treatments, often violent, is very long indeed. For dozens of centuries, the rule was, and still is, the biblical "An eye for an eye, a ...
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