The Grace of Tolerance
02/July/2007 Filed in:
JottingsI do not understand why people should want to murder one another, although Benedict did not find it unthinkable even in the monastery (see RB4) Recent events in London and Glasgow and the latest statistics from Iraq (a reduction in civilian deaths to 1200 for the month of June lauded as an improvement?) certainly concentrate the mind. Tolerance gets a bad press, being too often confused with indifference; but it is surely one of the marks of a civilized society and yes, it does demand effort and self-sacrifice. Had Chesterton been alive today, perhaps he would have found the grace of God in tolerance as well as courtesy.