Authoritarianism versus Tolerance

Core post: Cognitive Distortions.

Authoritarianism (RWA, SDO) versus Tolerance.

Fundamentalists hide behind "love the sinner, but hate the sin". However, they are actually sugar coating their hatred of any individual who doesn't bow to the narrow edicts that they publicly advocate (but not necessarily follow).

Ironically, this is the attitude that the Jesus Myth inventors preached against.

“Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian

leaders cook up between themselves. It happens when the followers submit too

much to the leaders, trust them too much, and give them too much leeway to do

whatever they want—which often is something undemocratic, tyrannical and brutal. In my day, authoritarian fascist and authoritarian communist dictatorships posed the biggest threats to democracies, and eventually lost to them in wars both hot and cold. But authoritarianism itself has not disappeared …. the greatest threat to American democracy today arises from a militant authoritarianism that has become a cancer upon the nation.” [italics mine]

Bob Altemeyer, The Authorarians (pdf)