Article: LETTERS to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)

How Much Am I Supposed to Tolerate?

J. Eric Hazell ("The Trouble with Tolerance," November/December 1999) asks, "But if you take the proselytizing out of evangelicalism ... what exactly are you tolerating?" I moved to southern Tennessee nine years ago. My son and daughter moved to South Carolina and Alabama. Shortly thereafter I imagined myself to be "tolerant." Now I wonder how tolerant it is wise to be.

Consider some of my experiences of the last nine years: people asking if I am "saved" before doing business with me; my grandchild coming home from school crying because she has been told that her mom and dad are going to hell if they don't "get ...

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