Seems to me if “God loves you just the way you are” Jesus would not have admonished “Go thy way and sin no more” when he was presented with the woman in John 8 who was “taken in adultery.” He had just saved this lady from being stoned to death for her adultery and his parting words to her were not condemnation but rather an admonition. It is so difficult, dare I say impossible, for the left to understand the concept of loving the sinner, hating the sin.
Tolerance is accommodating a friend’s religious practices when he is at your house for a meal. It is not intolerant to point out sin.
Tolerance is accommodating a friend’s religious practices when he is at your house for a meal. It is not intolerant to point out sin.Mr. Rogers is an interesting character. If you look at his teachings he was trying to teach people to look outside themselves. Mr Rogers would probably that the self-mastery that comes from tolerance and understanding is the true key to overcoming sin in oneself.
It may not be "intolerant," but it may be highly counterproductive if you go about it the wrong way. The reason why "fundamentalist Christian" has such a bad connotation for the general public is because all too often, self-professed "fundamentalist Christians" are so very unpleasant, and so very self-righteous.
One doesn't get much mileage out of "pointing out sin" when the first response of their audience is a visceral dislike.
Mr. Rogers knew that. His approach was simple in concept (and difficult in practice): accept everybody where they are, provide an example, and let God work on their hearts about the things they know are wrong.
Fred Rogers reminds one of the Christian friends of whom C. S. Lewis spoke: they led their own lives in such a manner that he saw his own misbehavior as shameful by comparison.