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Someone posted "Tolerance is not a Christian virtue". So I decided to check a Catholic view on the subject; "Religious toleration" in Catholic encyclopedia: https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14763a.htm

Not all intolerance, however, is a vice, nor is all tolerance a virtue.

This statement seems to affirm "some tolerance is a virtue", hence disagrees with the idea that "[no] tolerance is a Christian virtue".

Relatedly, of St. Fulgentius (January 2) it was said, on revenge:

An Arian priest betrayed Fulgentius to the Numidians, and ordered him to be scourged. This was done. His hair and beard were plucked out, and he was left naked, his body one bleeding sore. Even the Arian bishop was ashamed of this brutality, and offered to punish the priest if the Saint would prosecute him. But Fulgentius replied, "A Christian must not seek revenge in this world. God knows how to right His servants' wrongs. If I were to bring the punishment of man on that priest, I should lose my own reward with God. And it would be a scandal to many little ones that a Catholic and a monk, however unworthy he be, should seek redress from an Arian bishop."

I guess, while there is maybe some pushback on a wrongful pacificism and false tolerance, that all good tolerance might not be forgotten today in the storm of the seeking of "intolerant justice".

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