A picture speaks a thousand words.The heartbreaking pictures of children being killed in war zones are graphic examples of naked hatred gone berserk.
Intolerance remains unchanged, from the times of Christ (PBUH) to the current year, our intolerance has never diminished. Intolerance means not enduring what you dislike, and seeking to harm it, whether you are persecuting someone, prohibiting a practice, or punishing a set of beliefs. Our long embrace of intolerance, and of violence, is present not only in our recent history, but stretches back to our prehistoric past.
We forget at our peril the demagogues of yesteryear and their insane followers who claim privileged insight into the masses but ended up crushing the individual.
In this cauldron of discontent, humans fail the tolerance test, whether it’s racial, religious,…