Intolerance In America
This is a piece I wrote in my former blog. With all the anger, hate and outright vitriol in our society these days, I thought it would be good to re-post it here. America... the land of brotherly love. We even have a city nicknamed “The City of Brotherly Love”. Brotherly love allows us to be tolerant of those we may disagree with. Such a precious human commodity, yes? Yet, if you were to question people on the street, it's doubtful if many could describe brotherly love for you. But those same people could probably tell you in great detail how pissed of they get at such-and-such group of people for whatever reason. Of course, there has always been intolerance, but America hasn't always been an intolerant country. That's a more recent development. And it can't really be blamed on either side of the political spectrum... Left or Right. We have to lay the blame where the blame is due... US. You know, in the past several years, ...