Austin Marquis
Professor Covey
English 100 CRN# 10212
16 October 2017
Fortitude
Resilience, Willingness, Habits. These are all things that describe the word tolerance at least in the English language. Tolerance. This word that dates back to the 15th century it is used now as a politically correct; good to teach openness and sympathy that gives an excuse to hide the snobbery and rudeness, but there is still a connotation to the word when it is spoken whether it be negative or positive. With this word comes a lot of history like in religion like in the bible and muslim religions, and politics now a days it’s mostly focused on north korea. When people speak especially in America you will notice that we use a thing called connotation and denotation …show more content…
This subtle change in the definition is based upon the philosophy of relative truth. Relative truth negates the belief that some beliefs are true and some are false. As a consequence, all beliefs are equally valid and all must be accepted. Combining the behavior with the person makes anyone not accepting the behavior “intolerant.” Consequently, by accepting the New Tolerance we’ve gone from rejecting bad behavior to accepting …show more content…
The Puritans soon followed, for the same reason. Ever since these religious dissidents arrived at their shining “city upon a hill,” as their governor John Winthrop called it, millions from around the world have done the same, coming to an America where they found a welcome melting pot in which everyone was free to practice his or her own faith.
The problem is that this tidy narrative is an American myth. The real story of religion in America’s past is an often awkward, frequently embarrassing and occasionally bloody tale that most civics books and high-school texts either paper over or shunt to the side. And much of the recent conversation about America’s ideal of religious freedom has paid lip service to this comforting tableau.
From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever”—including the “heathen” natives already here. Moreover, while it is true that the vast majority of early-generation Americans were Christian, the pitched battles between various Protestant sects and, more explosively, between Protestants and Catholics, present an unavoidable contradiction to the widely held notion that America is a “Christian
Professor Covey
English 100 CRN# 10212
16 October 2017
Fortitude
Resilience, Willingness, Habits. These are all things that describe the word tolerance at least in the English language. Tolerance. This word that dates back to the 15th century it is used now as a politically correct; good to teach openness and sympathy that gives an excuse to hide the snobbery and rudeness, but there is still a connotation to the word when it is spoken whether it be negative or positive. With this word comes a lot of history like in religion like in the bible and muslim religions, and politics now a days it’s mostly focused on north korea. When people speak especially in America you will notice that we use a thing called connotation and denotation …show more content…
This subtle change in the definition is based upon the philosophy of relative truth. Relative truth negates the belief that some beliefs are true and some are false. As a consequence, all beliefs are equally valid and all must be accepted. Combining the behavior with the person makes anyone not accepting the behavior “intolerant.” Consequently, by accepting the New Tolerance we’ve gone from rejecting bad behavior to accepting …show more content…
The Puritans soon followed, for the same reason. Ever since these religious dissidents arrived at their shining “city upon a hill,” as their governor John Winthrop called it, millions from around the world have done the same, coming to an America where they found a welcome melting pot in which everyone was free to practice his or her own faith.
The problem is that this tidy narrative is an American myth. The real story of religion in America’s past is an often awkward, frequently embarrassing and occasionally bloody tale that most civics books and high-school texts either paper over or shunt to the side. And much of the recent conversation about America’s ideal of religious freedom has paid lip service to this comforting tableau.
From the earliest arrival of Europeans on America’s shores, religion has often been a cudgel, used to discriminate, suppress and even kill the foreign, the “heretic” and the “unbeliever”—including the “heathen” natives already here. Moreover, while it is true that the vast majority of early-generation Americans were Christian, the pitched battles between various Protestant sects and, more explosively, between Protestants and Catholics, present an unavoidable contradiction to the widely held notion that America is a “Christian