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1 posted on 02/09/2017 8:02:25 PM PST by ReformationFan
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And by definition the liberal version is not even tolerance.

Its we tolerate those that think like we do, and do not tolerate those who don’t.

That is not the true definition of what tolerance is.


2 posted on 02/09/2017 8:13:14 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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I got no problem with tolerance. Tolerance is when I’m looking at your perverted twisted self with a barely-concealed disgusted sneer, like I smell something rotten. I treat you with basic good manners required by society, nothing more. I’m not your friend.... I am _tolerating_ you.

So yeah, I’m just fine with “tolerance”. It’s forced acceptance that I find repugnant.


3 posted on 02/09/2017 8:18:43 PM PST by DesertRhino (.)
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Tolerance has nothing to do with Christian love. Tolerance is passive.

Christian love is active.

Next case.


4 posted on 02/09/2017 8:23:06 PM PST by Migraine (Diversity is great- -- until it happens to YOU.)
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>> Christians have always said that we are commanded to hate the sin and love the sinner. In other words, hate actions that have devastating spiritual consequences in order to love the person—to the extent of warning him against behaviors that will hurt him. <<

No. God hates the sinner as well as the sin. A sinner is condemned from birth. He sends the sinner to Hell and eventually to the Lake of Fire.

But God does have patience (not tolerance) up to a point when He says, "My Spirit will not always struggle with man's spirit."

There comes a time when He gives up, and a Christian ought to do the same and go on, The Christin's goal should be far from becoming a co-dependent.

5 posted on 02/09/2017 11:17:59 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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“Progressives” appeal to “toleration” and “rights” in order to muddle questions of fact and duty, and the dodge usually works because people are caught up in modern ideology which leaves authority dangling over the abyss by the flimsiest of threads. If the “progressives” would openly assert that their personal will needs to triumph over outside authority simply because it’s their personal will, then the scheme wouldn’t work so well.


6 posted on 02/10/2017 2:04:13 AM PST by Mmmike
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It’s not Hollywood that turns me off to Christianity as much as the antics of the many denominations themselves. Almost all the refugee resettlement is fronted by the church, for instance.


7 posted on 02/10/2017 7:11:26 AM PST by Jack Black (Dispossession is an obliteration of memory, of place, and of identity)
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