intolerant

As I begin, I think it's important to define intolerance. Essentially, it means to "not tolerate" someone or something else. Now, to tolerate means to put up with something that you disagree with. So, by definition intolerance demands that you disagree with something. I have no problem with people disagreeing, but I do have issues with intolerance because that means other views aren't just disagreed with, they're mocked, ridiculed, and even banished.

Moving on, yesterday I started to write a post titled, "The New Colonialism", but then, for whatever reason, I decided to stop. It began to argue that there is a new dominant worldview that, much like Colonialism in ages past, is intolerant towards all other worldviews. Colonialism was largely cultural and, because it viewed Western Enlightenment culture as the pinnacle of culture, it's set out to reshape, suppress, and destroy all other cultures.

So, what's the new Colonialism? It's called naturalism, which basically says that our knowledge and understanding of the world is limited to what we can experience in space and time.

I'm glad I stopped writing yesterday, because today I was sent the link previewing Ben Stein's new movie, EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed which explores the natural pointing us to something beyond the natural. Here's the preview:

It looks like I'm not alone in seeing the intolerance.