Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time

Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by jimbob45 on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:03PM (#26625785)

Karl Popper was a moron. You can tolerate intolerance just fine by assuming there will be someone equally intolerant of such intolerance.

I wish people would stop quoting that denthead. It’s as silly as people claiming the Qu’ran has passages specifically commanding them to blow people up.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by alexeldeib on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:42PM (#26626360)

Your conclusion is definitionally the same as Popper's? Intolerance of intolerance is the solution. It is only a "paradox" in that unlimited tolerance leads to this seemingly backwards outcome of the triumph of intolerance.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by jimbob45 on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:58PM (#26626636)

The difference is that Popper thinks you yourself must be the intolerant one. I'm saying that if intolerance exists, then someone else will take care of it because they too must surely exist.

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by Grieving on Monday March 29, 2021 @02:50PM (#26626489)

Taken to its logical conclusion, nothing can be tolerated but tolerance itself.

Kind of an inversion of Chesterton's 'Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.'

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