Tolerance and Tyranny by David Yeagley · January 13, 2014

Tolerance is a cover for tyranny. The doctrine of tolerance is a “politically correct” façade for economic oppression and racism. The very concept of tolerance is an open door to the most vile despotism. Tolerance means coercion. 

Tolerance is the very religion of Democrat Communists, and the parade in which march every social fraud scheme, every dissembling banner, and every disguise of cruelty.

The Obama administration has excelled all others in the matter of fraud, public pretense, lying, and all conceivable operations to denigrate America and to humiliate the American people–particularly the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The Obama administration has no respect for Roman Catholics, either, since Rome is just another white convention. 

Rather that load up dozens of links and specificities, however, BadEagle.com offers instead an example from ancient Biblical times. The story of Jonah, the the matter of Nineveh, provide a classic political example of “tolerance.” Apparently there are political and social inevitabilities amongst the settlements of humanity, regardless of historical periods or geographic circumstances.

In the 1960′s, conservative pastors were still preaching that Jonah fled Nineveh because of the horrible reputation of the Assyrians. The Assyrian treatment of foreigners–particularly spies, was with astounding cruelty. Jonah fled from fear. 

As liberalism gained the ascendency in the Christian seminaries, however, the explanation shifted from Assyrian cruelty to Jewish prejudice. That’s right. Modern pastors, even in fairly conservative denominations, have put the onus on the Jewish prophet. He fled because he didn’t want to share the mercy and goodness of God with the nasty Assyrians. Jonah was unusually and supremely intolerant, full of Jewish pride and racial prejudice. So the WASPs decided to bid for anti-Semitism in their modern interpretation.

The Nineveh we’re talking about is eighth century BC. It was a monster city (taking three days to cross), but Assyria was not a world empire just yet. Indeed it was a vile and violent place, and Jonah was sent 600 miles (as the crow flies) from Israel to the other side of the Fertile Crescent. It is an extraordinary tale, Jonah’s story. 

Interestingly, also in the 1960′s, there were scholars like S. H. Hooke¹ (1874-1968) and Georges Contenau² (1877-1964) who had begun singing the praises of the kingdoms of Assyria and Babylonia. Contenau’s detail depictions of everyday life in these ancient civilizations is borderline heartwarming. Hooke’s account, more in a philosophical tone, is frank and disarming. In his introduction to Babylonian and Assyrian Religion, Hooke assures us that Assyria was so very tolerant that it could be called “catholic,” that is, universal. 

Hooke quotes the eminent Prof. Sidney Smith (1889-1979) avowing the wondrous attitude of the Assyrians (p. xi, xii):

The lack of individuality then in the Assyrians was no more remarkable than that of the Romans who similarly accepted a religion not their own.

Then Hooke explicates, 

To this catholicity no small debt was owed by the ancient world; and to it we owe our knowledge of these works which deserve more analysis than they have received for their importance in the history of the development of the human spirit.

Okay. The Assyrians were just wonderful people, interested in all culture equally. (Never mind those pesky tales of hanging enemies by their thumbs and toes, and those hideous accounts of cutting off hands, feet, and heads to count the dead after military battles.) Assyrians were epitomically civilized and high minded.

This is certainly not the impression the King of Nineveh himself gives–at least in the book of Jonah. When his ‘establishment’ was threatened with annihilation from the Hebrew God, he ordered national mourning and fasting, for man and beast. He proclaimed to the populace, “Let them turn every one from the evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands” (Jonah 3:8). Doesn’t sound like a tranquil, idyllic metropolis, does it? 

So, shall we not combine the liberal preachers and the liberal scholars, with the ancient records of blood and horror? What shall we conclude?

Assyria, for all its evident tolerance of world religion, and its quest to incorporate it, even to manage it, was a despotic tyranny, and completely intolerant of freedom for other nations and peoples. Assyria did become a world empire, very much the first, though not as spectacular as Babylon. Assyria did mercilessly slaughter all the people of Palestine, including the Jews of the northern kingdom of Israel. Sargon II coerced the major diaspora of the Jews in 722 BC. What happened to tolerance? What happened to honoring all ethnicities, all religions, all culture? 

The Assyrians may not have been violent twenty-four hours a day, but, as noted earlier, when Nineveh feared divine retribution, they all suddenly knew where they were wrong. “Violence in their hands.” 

There is an important lesson here. Politically speaking, tolerance, peace, and good will, all translate into coercion, oppression, and in the case of modern preachers, sharp prejudice against the Jews. 

Beware, all. 

Freedom means not to have to tolerate that which repulses you. Freedom means not to be forced to accept that to which you are averse. 

Today, we lose freedom, through tolerance.

References:

¹ S. H. Hooke, Babylonian and Assyrian Religion (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1963).
² Georges Conenau, Everyday Life in Babylon and Assyria (New York: Norton, 1966)

Tolerance is a cover for tyranny. The doctrine of tolerance is a “politically correct” façade for economic oppression and racism. The very concept of tolerance is an open door to the most vile despotism. Tolerance means coercion.
Tolerance is the very religion of Democrat Communists, and the parade in which march every social fraud scheme, every dissembling banner, and every disguise of cruelty.
The Obama administration has excelled all others in the matter of fraud, public pretense, lying, and all conceivable operations to denigrate America and to humiliate the American people–particularly the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The Obama administration has no respect for Roman Catholics, either, since Rome is just another white convention.
- See more at: http://www.badeagle.com/2014/01/13/tolerance-and-tyranny/#sthash.mchXxw5L.dpuf

Tolerance is a cover for tyranny. The doctrine of tolerance is a “politically correct” façade for economic oppression and racism. The very concept of tolerance is an open door to the most vile despotism. Tolerance means coercion.
Tolerance is the very religion of Democrat Communists, and the parade in which march every social fraud scheme, every dissembling banner, and every disguise of cruelty.
The Obama administration has excelled all others in the matter of fraud, public pretense, lying, and all conceivable operations to denigrate America and to humiliate the American people–particularly the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The Obama administration has no respect for Roman Catholics, either, since Rome is just another white convention.
- See more at: http://www.badeagle.com/2014/01/13/tolerance-and-tyranny/#sthash.mchXxw5L.dpuf

Tolerance is a cover for tyranny. The doctrine of tolerance is a “politically correct” façade for economic oppression and racism. The very concept of tolerance is an open door to the most vile despotism. Tolerance means coercion.
Tolerance is the very religion of Democrat Communists, and the parade in which march every social fraud scheme, every dissembling banner, and every disguise of cruelty.
The Obama administration has excelled all others in the matter of fraud, public pretense, lying, and all conceivable operations to denigrate America and to humiliate the American people–particularly the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The Obama administration has no respect for Roman Catholics, either, since Rome is just another white convention.
- See more at: http://www.badeagle.com/2014/01/13/tolerance-and-tyranny/#sthash.mchXxw5L.dpuf