cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/6541859

Wiki - The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. Karl Popper described it as the seemingly self-contradictory idea that in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must retain the right to be intolerant of intolerance.

  • cerevantEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The US has an atheist government - it is right there in the first amendment - we just allowed the theists to stack the Supreme Court with other theists.