Remember when we heard about “tolerance” constantly? A few decades ago, tolerance was “in”—we were told to tolerate others’ opinions and actions, regardless of what they may be. Some even called tolerance a virtue.
In fact, it was a ruse that allowed “multiculturalism” (remember that one, now replaced by “diversity, equity, and inclusion”?) and moral relativism to reign. In hindsight, the tolerance campaign appears as one of the final blows to the hegemony of the Christian moral vision that formerly shaped life in the West.
We don’t hear much about tolerance today because it’s no longer needed—the laissez-faire vision of morality it protected has been established as the cultural norm. Now we have the inverse situation: Christians are the ones calling for tolerance of their morality, which seeks protection under the aegis of religious liberty.
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