The Church warns: total tolerance will deprive people of freedom of word and turn them in guided mechanisms

The Russian Church official believes that absolute tolerance can make a person lose freedom and individuality.

"Tolerance in its absolute development is a death for freedom of word, freedom of thought, morality, turning a person in a mechanism with preset functions," head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said at a presentation of the book The Cruel Tolerance in Moscow.

The priest reminded that UNESCO in its Declaration of Principles on Tolerance 1995 officially urged to accept any ways of displaying human individuality and refuse absolutization of truth, and stressed that such a principle opposes not only God's law, but human conscience as well.

"They try to deprive us of the very right to judge what is good and what is bad, what is truth and what is lie," he said.

Authors of The Cruel Tolerance tried to predict what consequences the idea of tolerance can have if it is brought to absurdity. For instance, unisex marriages prevail in the world described in their tales, while a traditional family is considered an outdated anachronism.

One of the book inspirers, Orthodox human rights advocate Roman Silantyev said at the presentation that "people intolerant to pluralism are most often appeared to be protectors of the so-called tolerance."

He explained that advocates of sexual minorities rights categorically refused to consider the right of naturals to insist on observing traditional family values in society.

Head of the Civilizations Interaction Foundation Rakhamim Emanuilov who supported the book is concerned that the idea of sexual differences is relegated to the backgrounds.

According to him, it is not by chance that modern standard of female beauty "lacks female forms, which aim at reproducing." Emanuilov believes that such a tendency is in tune with promoting homosexual unions.

Interfax