No, intolerance causes the distruction of
society. At the height of their civilization,
some of the art of the greek and roman is now
considered to be pornographic. Arguments have
been made that the intolerant theme in
Christianity helped the fall of the Roman empire.
Fighting between Christians, the greek and roman
churches, intolerance for each other's
ideologies, weakened the Bzyantium empire and
caused its fall. During the middle ages, the Arab
world was the most advance civilization of its
age -- science, literature, medicine. . . . If
you ever read A Thousand and One Nights, the
literature was also a little risque. It was a
very tolerant community back then, with ghettos
for different groups, with ideas flowing back and
forth between them. It was at the head of the
world, now you'd be pressed to make the same
claim.
If we start persecuting people for things they
engage with their own consent, we will destroy
ourselves. History has proven that time and time
again. |