““Bad ideas sometimes begin with a good impulse. The “loss of the sense of sin” arises, I believe, from a misguided notion of tolerance. Democracies thrive because of a neighborly forbearance of differences of opinion. Tolerance does not, however, require us to abandon our convictions or deny the existence of moral standards. Tolerance does not demand that we call “good” what is evil or “evil” what is good. Nor does forgiveness of an action mean that we approve the action; in fact, we can only forgive something that is a genuine offense.””
