The Folly of Tolerance

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THE FOLLY OF TOLERANCE 

 

 

"Tolerance is a virtue,” says the Druidic whoremonger to his son, and hopefully no soul else. And yet, it seems this lie that indifference is somehow something noble continues to grow and spread among the good people of Canondom like a cancer. Tolerance is, simply put, the absurd belief that blind acceptance is something good, that if one’s own person is not directly affected by the actions of another, then those actions must be permissible. This is nonsense. To be Canonist is to HATE evil, in all its forms. Any sin, be it a crime against Man, beast, or the Natural Order, is a crime that cries out to the Skies for vengeance; and what faithful Canonist would deny his Maker the justice He seeks? 

 

No, there is no room in the Church of God for tolerance. For the Creator is a god of absolutes, whereas tolerance is inherently a cowardly stance which sits in the middle. The Creator is good; to reject Him is evil. Faith is good; faithlessness is evil. Truth is good; deceit is evil. And so on. In our world there exists only a binary distinction: that which is good, and that which is evil. That is to say: that which conforms to God’s will, and that which rejects it. There is no middle-ground, and no room at all for the Canonist to stand by as God’s will is rejected, no matter how much he may try to justify such with constructions of false piety such as “growing understanding” and a “developing theology” regarding matters of Faith and Virtue. 

 

The Prophets have spoken, and the Scrolls have been sealed. What was virtuous in the days of Horen remains virtuous, and what was credulous in the days of Siegmund remains so also. God gave us the Sons of Spirit so we would know Virtue, and Faith, and so that we would know Iniquity and Faithlessness when we saw it. There is no more room to sit in the middle-ground, to throw up our hands and say, “Who am I to judge?”, or “How am I to know who is right, and who is wrong?”. Our Maker’s Scripture, and the dogma His Church has gleaned from it, in all its glory, is all any man of faith needs to know right from wrong. What the Lord has declared iniquitous, the Canonist fights with the greatest of fervour, fearing not the martyrdom that would grant him his exaltation in the presence of the Aenguls. What the Lord has declared virtuous, the Canonist defends to the death, knowing that nothing in this world, this theatre of Virtue, means anything compared to the glory of God and his repose in His merciful presence. 

 

In between this dichotomy of Good and Evil, there lies nothing. That is not to say that every purchase of bread is an inherently noble deed, but rather that in this world there is absolutely nothing which is neither approved by the Lord God or rejected by Him. There is no middle-ground of that which is offensive to God, and yet should be tolerated by Canonists for its supposed lack of harm. For down this path, down this line of reasoning, lies all faithlessness and iniquity.

 

Jurgen Barclay.