“The absurdity of the matter is almost immediately evident.”
The Apostle John fleeing the presence of the heretic. Wiki Commons
On Religious Tolerance
Aemil Dorsch, De Ecclesia Christi, 1928
pp, 552-556
Translated by a friend of The WM Review
According to the principles we have just explained, it is very clearly deduced what should be thought about tolerance.
Indisputably, dogmatic or ethical tolerance is impious and absurd.
1. Explanation.
Tolerance should not be completely confused with indifferentism, although it somewhat coheres with it.
Indifferentism is more of an internal disposition, from which someone judges and feels indifferent directly towards either all or some religions, thereby denying the necessity of religion in general or the Catholic religion in particular.
But tolerance is an external attitude by which someone behaves equally in external conduct towards other religions distinct from the one they profess, and their followers, abstracting from any internal assessment of those religions.
Then, a system or doctrine that defends this way of behaving as just is also called by the same name. At first glance, tolerance seems to be somewhat derived from indifferentism, applying it to one’s actions; in this matter, to avoid confusion, the following should be carefully distinguished….
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