{"id":501086,"date":"2021-05-12T16:36:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=501086"},"modified":"2021-05-12T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T20:36:24","slug":"knowles-the-limits-of-religious-tolerance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-the-limits-of-religious-tolerance\/","title":{"rendered":"KNOWLES: The Limits of Religious Tolerance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fknowles-the-limits-of-religious-tolerance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=501086&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/GettyImages-834747684.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Pastor Artur Pawlowski will not genuflect before the high priests of public health, and so Canadian police dragged him on his knees down a highway and threw him into the back of a squad car. The cops did not arrest Pawlowski at his church \u2014 the last time they tried that, the pastor and his congregation chased them out with cries of \u201cGestapo\u201d and \u201cNazi\u201d \u2014 but rather waylaid him on the street as he returned from leading the religious service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw enforcement recognizes people\u2019s desire to participate in faith-based gatherings,\u201d the Calgary police insisted, \u201cHowever, as we find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic, we all must comply with public health orders in order to ensure everyone\u2019s safety and wellbeing.\u201d Canada recognizes the people\u2019s \u201cdesire\u201d to practice their religion, but not their right. When Christianity comes into conflict with the cult of secular progressivism, the state will side with the lab coat-clad bureaucrats over the cassock-clad priests.<\/p>\n<p>Canada continues to disguise its persecution of Christians in the language of science. Officials in the United Kingdom, on the other hand, have admitted the fundamentally religious character of the conflict. In late April, police arrested a street preacher in London for causing \u201calarm and distress\u201d by quoting allegedly \u201chomophobic\u201d verses from the Book of Genesis. And the putatively Christian Trent College near Nottingham recently fired its chaplain, the Reverend Dr. Bernard Randall, for discussing the differences between Christian and leftist sexual ethics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen ideologies compete, we should not descend into abuse, we should respect the beliefs of others, even where we disagree,\u201d Reverend Randall explained. \u201cAbove all, we need to treat each other with respect, not personal attacks.\u201d But Randall found himself the subject of just such personal attacks when he defended freedom of conscience against the sexual orthodoxies of the modern Left. \u201cYou should no more be told you have to accept LGBT ideology than you should be told you must be in favor of Brexit or must be Muslim \u2014 to both of which I\u2019m sure you would quite rightly object.\u201d The ideologues did not agree.<\/p>\n<p>After Randall gave his sermon, Trent College\u2019s \u201cdesignated safe guarding lead\u201d reported him not only to school officials, who fired him, but also to the British government\u2019s anti-terrorism unit, which exists to protect young Brits from \u201cradicalisation.\u201d In the United Kingdom, the transgender ideology, which holds that men can become women simply by wishing it so, is considered common sense; the notion that men and women are different, radical.<\/p>\n<p>But what happens when protected victim groups come into conflict? If a Muslim student quotes the Qur\u2019an, which instructs, \u201cPunish both of those among you who are guilty of [sodomy],\u201d does he thereby victimize or stigmatize homosexuals on the basis of their sexual orientation? If the Muslim student faces criticism or punishment for quoting the Qur\u2019an, has he been victimized or stigmatized on the basis of his religion?<\/p>\n<p>Religious tolerance has limits, as liberals and leftists throughout the Anglosphere prove more clearly every day.&nbsp;Contrary to popular and hysterical fears of \u201ctheocracy,\u201d all regimes necessarily recognize and pursue some conception of the good. Political correctness has promoted various slogans as euphemisms to just such an effect. Most recently it has exalted \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion,\u201d and it has installed deans and vice presidents of \u201cdiversity, equity, and inclusion\u201d on campus, in government agencies, and throughout corporate America to perform the sorts of religious and ethical functions once reserved for chaplains and the episcopacy.<\/p>\n<p>Christianity has long been the most persecuted religion in the world, as the Pew Research Center demonstrated in 2018. That trend, once largely confined to places such as China and the Arab states, appears to be spreading to the West. Perhaps Christendom will stand up to defend the faith of its fathers. In the meantime, the religion of the martyrs returns to its roots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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