The Faux Pas Press #61

The Faux Pas Press #61

17 October 2010

By Jason Fresh

“Are you tolerant to me? Is what I believe reasonable? Does it support reason? My religion is good. My religion is great on Sunday. On Monday, I mean, like, when we’re talking about football and restaurants around the water cooler, your religion is cool too. What are you? Muslim? That’s cool? Christian? Hey, that’s cool too. Every religion has its place. We’ve got to be tolerant toward other people’s religions, right? ‘I may not agree with what you say but I will defend with my life your right to say it,’ right, Ahmed? I mean, after all, you’re a Muslim and you’ll support me when Allah tells you to do ‘his will’, right? I mean, Brother Steven, you’ll still support my rights to individual sovereignty when God tells you to do ‘his will’, right? What if God tells you to violate my will? What are you going to do when your leaders tell you to legislate my behavior? You’re ideas are just as valid as mine – hey, even if they are detrimental to the survival of order and reason in the nation state. Even if God speaks to me and tells me to draft a proposition to infringe upon the private rights of its citizens? Hey, we’re egalitarian. We’re tolerant, right? Hey, I’ll see you at the sales meeting. Good talk. And, umm, God bless or Allah bless, right? Hey, ha-ha.”

You know, just because you declare a ‘truth’ loudly doesn’t mean it is objective reason speaking. It is more than likely the opposite. Do we have to declare someone within their ‘right’ when they are completely and utterly full of nonsense? Tolerance, when the tides of psychic forces collide, is a rotten joke that we play on ourselves. You can be within your 'right' and also be completely and utterly full of shit.