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"Tolerance is not the opposite of intolerance, but the
counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. One assumes to itself
the right of withholding the liberty of conscience, the other
of granting it. One is the pope armed with fire and faggot,
and the other the pope granting and selling indulgences. The
former is church and state and the latter church and traffic.â€
“But toleration can be viewed under a much stronger light.
Man worships not himself but his maker and the liberty of
conscience which he claims is not for the service of himself
but of his God. Toleration, therefore, does not come
between man and man, nor between church and church, nor
between one denomination and another, but between man
and God; between the being who worships, and the being
who is worshipped. And by the same act of assumed
authority which it tolerates man to pay his worship, it
blasphemously and presumptuously tolerates the Almighty to receive it."
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My hobbies are chess and amateur radio. I am interested in poetry and the forefather's documents. I am partially fluent in Polish. Graduated in 1991 from MIT with a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Engineering and Science. I have never succesfully used this education for a gainful career. I am have just beccome A+ certified. I want to incorporate this with my Amateur Extra Class radio license to somehow contribute to the community and make a little money. My political leanings are Libertarian but for the most part am very little versed in anything that is going on politically. I have a series of ten quotations by former chess masters, fifteen quotes from Thomas Paine's, Common Sense, and various other quotes commited to memory. These can be looked at in my web site.
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