05-23-2013, 07:19 AM
Mankind has been faced with evil, cloaked in civilisation or enforced under ocupation, from Creation on down untill today and forward untill it will ultimately be defeated for good.
It is the outworking of the good that we were raised in (and whether it offends some in our society now or not), it has been the Christianity of our forfathers that has been the foundation of the free and sucessfully progressive countries we live in that has caused us to look with compassion toward the less priveledged. We preach tolerence but are not tolerated in return.
From
The Open Society and Its Enemies
by Karl Popper
"the paradox of tolerance : Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
The coexist fundamental that we all live by looks like this when it is translated into islam.
![[Image: coexistinfidels_lightbox-vi_zps5d987b23.jpg]](http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/VonGruff/Miscelaneous/coexistinfidels_lightbox-vi_zps5d987b23.jpg)
It is the outworking of the good that we were raised in (and whether it offends some in our society now or not), it has been the Christianity of our forfathers that has been the foundation of the free and sucessfully progressive countries we live in that has caused us to look with compassion toward the less priveledged. We preach tolerence but are not tolerated in return.
From
The Open Society and Its Enemies
by Karl Popper
"the paradox of tolerance : Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them. — In this formulation, I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant. We should claim that any movement preaching intolerance places itself outside the law, and we should consider incitement to intolerance and persecution as criminal, in the same way as we should consider incitement to murder, or to kidnapping, or to the revival of the slave trade, as criminal."
The coexist fundamental that we all live by looks like this when it is translated into islam.
![[Image: coexistinfidels_lightbox-vi_zps5d987b23.jpg]](http://s667.photobucket.com/user/VonGruff/media/Miscelaneous/coexistinfidels_lightbox-vi_zps5d987b23.jpg.html)