Titles Are Hard

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The main point that I got from Locke's Letter of Toleration comes from chapter 4. It talks about the limit of toleration between individual people. Simply put, it talks about toleration (shocking I know) for someone else's beliefs. Particularly, it's about how it is wrong to encroach on someone else's rights, or even harm that person, purely because of their differing beliefs. The last sentence in particular sticks with me: "if someone strays from the right path, that is his misfortune, not yours; and your belief that he will be miserable in the after-life is not a reason to give him a bad time in his present life." He just says to agree to disagree and to treat them no differently than you would someone who shares your beliefs. He even makes the argument that the gospel teaches kindness and charity.

Edit: Commented on Stephen Davis' and Gray Moore's posts

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Ezra Kennedy said…
That quote is something that I think a lot of people these days need to hear. Just because we believe someone is condemned to a certain kind of excruciating death, doesn’t mean we should prepare them for it while their still breathing. We preach love but forget to actually use it, like it’s something that everyone else has to do but when it comes to us actually doing it and being an example it’s too hard.

Nice post Logan!
November 4, 2019 at 8:53 PM
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