Episode #043 ... Tolerance
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Are You Intolerance?
Voltaire was living during a time period where being tolerant was seen as cowardice. Being embivolant about the strongly held religious convictions of all the other people around you was seen as laziness. And there was a long history of this. There was a long dialogue within the church about just how much responsibility the average person had over the eternal fate of their neighbors or friends.
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