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I Pride Myself on Being Tolerant, but…
By Dina Dove of The Bagladys Guide to Elegant Living Author
All of a sudden I’m finding myself battling with a lack of it. I’m beginning to think we have been too tolerant. We have been tolerant of the rights of the minority while trampling on those of the majority. Most people in our country have some kind of spiritual belief and practice. A recent ABC poll indicated their findings that 83% of Americans are Christian. Reference:
(http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/beliefnet_poll_010718.html) That is a dramatic majority. So I don’t get it. Why is there even any consideration to the idea that we remove “In God we Trust” from our currency? Almost all of our ancestors, at one time or another, came to America from non-English speaking countries. My grandparents did not speak a word of English when they came to the land of opportunity where they could work hard and make a better life for themselves and their children. School was not taught in Dutch. They did not expect it to be. They came to America to become Americans. I’m thinking, “Of course the citizenship test should be in English.” Part of becoming a citizen of a country should be the ability to speak the language well enough to pass the test. Why, after over 200 years as an English speaking country would anyone even question whether or not English is the national language? If the United States wasn’t an amazing country in the first place, then people from all over the globe would not be clamoring to get in here. They wanted to come because of who we were, and now we are bending to be something else just for them. That is backwards. Some will say of the Christians that they are intolerant, and I must admit that I have held that same view from time to time. But now I believe that the Christians, people of faith and conviction, those willing to stand up to defend our freedom, the hardworking Americans, are actually the most tolerant groups in the country today. When I see what is going on in our government right now, I believe a little more intolerance would be serving the citizens of our country better. Dina Dove |
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Real tolerance is tolerating the intolerant. 
 |  | nick Aug 22, 2009 07:53 | |
I'm not a expert on the history of our coinage but from what I understand, "in God We Trust" hasn't always been there. Regardless, I don't care if it is on there personally. On the otherhand, I think that it's not that some people are intolerant of Christian beliefs as much as they merely don't want those beliefs pushed on them, whether they are agnostic, atheists, or someone of a different religion. If we have freedom of religion it means any religion is ok here, so to have one used in such an official manner creates a problem. Being here first doesn't carry any special rights. Anyway, that's my stab at it; I doubt it's intolerance, it's just other people wanting equal consideration.
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