06-28-2016, 09:21 PM
Religious liberty sounds like the apotheosis of tolerance. But religious freedom does not invariably produce Quaker-like gentleness. It can also produce the Westboro Baptist Church (associated with the infamous site godh@tesf@gs.com) and 00 as in Iraq and Syria, which had some religious pluralism, ISIS.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.