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Tolerance currently occupies a very high place in Western societies: it is considered gauche, even boorish, to question it. In The Intolerance of Tolerance, however, questioning tolerance—or, at least, contemporary understandings of tolerance—is exactly what D. A. Carson does. Carson traces the subtle but enormous shift in the way we have come to understand tolerance over recent years—from...

(so defenders of euthanasia are committing murder, suicide bombers are terrorists, and so forth). The fact that the new tolerance is most prone to label all of its opponents intolerant leads to a second reflection. The charge of intolerance has come to wield enormous power in much of Western culture—at least as much as the charge of “communist” during the McCarthy years. It functions as a “defeater belief.”17 A defeater belief is a belief that defeats other beliefs—i.e., if you hold a defeater belief
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