Intolerance of Conscience?

Published on July 12, 2008 By erathoniel In Current Events

Go to a public high school and you will find curiculum made to teach "tolerance". In reality, what I find most taught "tolerance" to be is a pile of drudged up drek made to desensitize or demonize those long-standing establishments of moral standards. Tolerance cannot be taught. Children will not learn tolerance by these means, merely the intolerance of conscience.

My question is this: Why is it so wrong to have a conscience? I believe that homosexuals are wrong. I do not hate homosexuals no more than I hate those who I'd disagree with on matters of politics or science. I believe that God exists. I do not hate those who say that God does not exist, I merely disagree with them. This comes with no "tolerance" training that I accepted, other than what I heard at church. Is it so much that we secularize the nation, but also blame the preachers of tolerance as the distributors of slander? I have never heard a pastor preach any form of anger or intolerance (other than, of course, the righteous anger towards those who attack innocents or undermine the church), so why should children be tought "tolerance"? Children are perfect innocence, and intolerance is only instilled on them by outside factors. Therefore, should we not eliminate the creators of intolerance before breaking down logic and reason via "tolerance" training?

Comments (Page 5)

lulapilgrim

on Jul 23, 2008

Yes, but then truth is not correct, making everyone's truth (save God's) meaningless.

Thank God for the right to your own opinion, right?

Wrong. How can there be a God-given right to our own opinion? God has given us His truth, His absolutes, not the "right" to have an opinion of His absolutes. God has given us ability to know natural and Divine Truth. That's what He wants us to seek.

erathoniel

on Jul 23, 2008

Unless you think you are a God and are perfect and so your words are supreme. I bet you've seen Bruce Almighty and wish you could have had such a chance to be God. Seeing as how your opinions are prone to thinking of yourself as perfect.

Charles, you are so deluded. If I thought my words were supreme, I wouldn't be exalting His. I've never seen Bruce Almighty, and I really don't wish I had a chance to be God. Since when have I said that I am perfect, you libellious slanderer?

CharlesCS

on Jul 23, 2008

It's called free will Lula, the ability to think for ourselves. God wants us to to seek and take his word , that does not mean that will happen because, again he gave us free will. The right to your own opinion, just as you did in your reply above.

CharlesCS

on Jul 23, 2008

What ever. Call me what you want, I'm not the one going around constantly posing my words as absolute. Your responses are those of people who think only they are right. Doesn't matter to me though, what you believe does not affect my life, we all have God's given right to believe what one wants. And we also have the right to disagree and dispute other peoples beliefs and opinions. If you don't like it, I suggest you avoid keeping your articles open to comments. Make them private to only a select few who agree with your words of "wisdom".

You and Lula can pretend to believe you are following God's words all you want, in the end you will still be a sinner till your time comes and only God can judge you and everyone else.

CharlesCS

on Jul 23, 2008

BTW, next time learn what a word means before you use it. I never called you perfect so I never made any false publications or statement of any kind.

lulapilgrim

on Jul 23, 2008

Okay....so you equate God's gift of free will as a "right" to our own opinion. I'd say they are two different things. Free will is the capability of self-determination; it implies choice between motives. We have a God-given right to truth, but not a right to our own opinion of it.....that's relativism.

erathoniel

on Jul 23, 2008

What ever. Call me what you want, I'm not the one going around constantly posing my words as absolute.

They ain't my words, they're the words I agree with.

You and Lula can pretend to believe you are following God's words all you want, in the end you will still be a sinner till your time comes and only God can judge you and everyone else.

Excuse me, you obviously haven't brushed up on theological doctrine quite as much as you're trying to say you have. The only way we can't sin is with God, so therefore until He makes us perfect again, we'll continue. He may help us here, though.

BTW, next time learn what a word means before you use it. I never called you perfect so I never made any false publications or statement of any kind.

Seeing as how your opinions are prone to thinking of yourself as perfect.

What are you saying? Are you *gasp* contradicting yourself? You've never called me perfect, but you've put words into my own opinion. I may be an inflated egotist, but I still do not believe I am even ranking on the upper half of the way to perfect.

Your responses are those of people who think only they are right. Doesn't matter to me though, what you believe does not affect my life, we all have God's given right to believe what one wants.

Your gun is firing backwards. (Do the math, and you will find that I'm saying that it applies to you.)

And we also have the right to disagree and dispute other peoples beliefs and opinions. If you don't like it, I suggest you avoid keeping your articles open to comments. Make them private to only a select few who agree with your words of "wisdom".

So, wait, are you saying that I can disagree, but you are then telling me to close down my articles to comments, and make them available only to my fellow educated theologians? But then I wouldn't have you to bring so much humor into my day. (Yes, I've gotten fed up by now.)

Jythier

on Jul 23, 2008

So here we are, talking about relative truth... I believe that this site is owned by me. I know it, it's the truth. Except that a lot of people seem to think it's owned by Draginol. But I know it's mine. You can all have your opinions, and I can have mine, and we'll all just respect each other's opinions.

That's all well in good, except for the truth, which is that Draginol does own the site, and I do not - no matter what I believe, it's still not the truth that anyone but Draginol does own the site.

Just the same, you can believe all you want that God didn't create the earth, that He doesn't exist, but it doesn't matter - He still DOES exist, whether you believe in Him or not. Or He doesn't, whether I believe in Him or not. There's a truth there, one of us just doesn't have the discernment to see it.

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