Paine: Good Point About
Tolerance Versus Intolerance
Bill Garrett
From: "Bill Garrett"
To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org>
Subject: Re: opinion
Date: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 5:02 AM
Oh, good point about tolerance! And thanks for the Paine reference. I have long wondered what was so virtuous about merely tolerating someone. Personally, I don't much enjoy being merely "tolerated," either.
Bill G
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