Sunday, July 6, 2014

One the biggest cultural objections to Christianity is the view of Tolerance




One the biggest cultural objections to Christianity is the view of Tolerance. This view says that "Acceptance" of all ways of life is the only way for people to live. And to reject this idea is to be labeled a Bigot, and Narrow minded. Etc Luther Conigliarro The Jews were being "Tolerant" of the Nazis and look where it led!

Here's how I have delt in the past with this type of Argument in the link below

http://youtu.be/dNNMqQrSBg4


Robin Wilson The term tolerance :: willingness to accept feelings, habits, or beliefs that are different from your own : the ability to accept, experience, or survive something harmful or unpleasant

The willingness to accept things that are different and harmful. It is interesting what we are willing to tolerate. Should we tolerate Cancer or treat it? When something is harmful should we ever NOT treat it? Sin is a disease upon mankind that leads to death and the only cure is Jesus. With any disease and treatment.. it is tough to hear you have the disease, it is tough to accept the diagnosis, it is tough to fight the disease..... but when the Dr. says you are "cured" the fight was worth it. The Christian community needs to be kind in delivering the diagnosis but never be afraid of being honest. In order to get the proper cure.... we must be "narrow minded" .... just like a doctor... we must target the disease. You would never accept a doctor saying to you ... "You have cancer... you need to be tolerant".

Linwood Kemp Simply stated, to be "tolerant" is to allow that which you believe to be untrue and to reject anything that claims to be true. Tolerance elevates the lie and suppresses the truth.

James Runavich Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.
-GK Chesterton

Robin Wilson Ravi Zacharias on Tolerance

"The truth is that all religions are not the same. All religions do not point to God. All religions do not say that all religions are the same. In fact, some religions do not even believe in God. At the heart of every religion is an uncompromising commitment to a particular way of defining who God is or is not. Buddhism, for example, was based on Buddha's rejection of two of Hinduism's fundamental doctrines. Islam rejects both Buddhism and Hinduism. So it does no good to put a halo on the notion of tolerance and act as if everything is equally true. In fact, even all-inclusive religions such as Bahaism end up being exclusivistic by excluding the exclusivists!"

—Ravi Zacharias

J.P. Moreland on Tolerance, Religion, and Morality

"Tolerance has come to mean that no one is right and no one is wrong and, indeed, the very act of stating that someone else’s views are immoral or incorrect is now taken to be intolerant (of course, from this same point of view, it is all right to be intolerant of those who hold to objectively true moral or religious positions). Once the existence of knowable truth in religion and ethics is denied, authority (the right to be believed and obeyed) gives way to power (the ability to force compliance), reason gives way to rhetoric, the speech writer is replaced by the makeup man, and spirited but civil debate in the culture wars is replaced by politically correct special-interest groups who have nothing left but political coercion to enforce their views on others."

—J. P. Moreland

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