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Post by Damaged Goods on Aug 25, 2016 17:52:52 GMT -5
Way ahead of his time!"Truth alone is tolerant and never persecutes anybody; it limits itself to preventing one from doing harm. Error is essentially intolerant and as soon as it feels it has power - school, party or sect - it strives to exhibit this power by suppressing its opponents, by insulting them, especially by preventing them from speaking. The right to free speech, so vehemently defended by liberals, to the point that they place it in their constitutions and make it the touchstone of parliamentarianism, only seems acceptable to them if it gives immunity to their monologue and prevents all criticism. The objects most pleasing to them are an incense burner for themselves and chains or a gag for their opponents." From Critical history of liberal Catholicism.
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