edikaiosen
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05:28:26 pm on June 6, 2008 | # |
I would like to begin this post by saying that the inspiration for it came from here. Give this link a quick look-see.
Secondly, I do not claim to know every pagan/secular person in culture, but I have observed quite a bit and was once a pagan myself and so I will speak with authority regarding my observations, however my observations are in no way exhaustive and may well be wrong in certain aspects. I will claim however that my observations are majoratively true.
Frankly, I’m a bit mad and frustrated. I’m tired of the hypocrisy coming from the world. Why should we be tolerant of lesbians kissing in front of our children? Why should that be a teaching moment and if it was what do you expect us to teach our young child who’s innocence was so casually assaulted? Why should we? After all, you’re being intolerant of our beliefs, morals, and lifestyle? If you’re so tolerant, why can’t you tolerate us? Isn’t that the point of your toleration? To say in essence, “You can believe what you want and do what you want and desire. Who am I to say it’s wrong? I can tolerate your lifestyle.” Can’t you see the hypocrisy in what your saying? It’s your attack on us that is intolerant! What should be said from you who waves the flag of tolerance so faithfully is, “Oh, she has the right to be mad and to get that person thrown out of the game. That’s her belief. More power to her for doing what she thought was right.” Am I wrong in this?
You see, tolerance, when fully fleshed out to its inevitable extreme leads to apathy. Apathy leads to a life devoid of passion and a life without passion and zeal is desperately lonely and hopeless. For what is there to stand up for? Everything is to be tolerated. To each his own. Whatever floats your boat. There’s no mission.
But what I want to point out is that nobody takes tolerance to that level becauseof it’s loneliness and hopelessness. What happens is that those who wave the flag of tolerance make tolerance their passion and mission. It’s their life and they pursue it with a team, for lack of a better term. Ultimately though, they will only tolerate what they are willing to accept or what seems right to them. You will never see, hopefully, somebody standing up for the person who murdered their children declaring that we should have tolerance for his choice. Again I have to say that the scary result of total tolerance is the tolerance of such evil things, I hope that day never comes, but it would be the end result of total tolerance. It’s for that very reason though that the people who wave the flag of tolerance will only do it for the things they deem right. Therefore, tolerance simply becomes their battle cry for the proliferation of their preferences. The reason they do this is because we were created to worship, created to be zealots, and created to have purpose. Whether it’s a passion for baseball, sex, or God, we will worship something. And for a lot of people declaring “tolerance” has become their way of furthering their cause/god by diminishing resistance through the scare tactic of “I don’t want to be perceived as intolerant by anyone.” “I don’t want to be the person who disagrees, because then people might think I’m intolerant.”
The problem that pop culture has with Christians is that we have a book (written by our God) that tells us what’s right and wrong (absolute truth) and we aren’t (or shouldn’t be) afraid to say we disagree with things that our culture has perceived to be tolerable but that our Bible has said is wrong. I will tolerate till I’m blue in the face something that the Bible says I should tolerate. (it is the very word of my GOD! after all) But I will not sacrifice the word of my King for the preferences of my culture. That would be like spitting in the face of my King.
All this to say, I will be patient but not tolerant of the things that I disagree with in our culture. I will live in this world but yet be an alien to it. And ultimately, I will hold out hope for the making-right of our world through the return of my King, namely, Jesus Christ, but until then I swear allegiance to my King and His word.
K.B.
infructescence 10:20 am on June 7, 2008 | #
“life without passion and zeal is desperately lonely and hopeless”
edikaiosen 4:16 pm on June 9, 2008 | #
Why did you quote that infructescence?
edikaiosen 4:08 pm on June 20, 2008 | #
So, I feel I owe somewhat of an apology for this post, because frankly I shouldn’t be mad at the world for acting like the world. To spell that out exactly, acting like the world means being fallen, sinful, and hypocrital. Really though, can I expect anything different? and would calling the world out on it’s sin do any good? No. So really, please accept my apology for being impatient and angry at you. My actions and my words should point you to Jesus and not condemn you for the sin that rules your life. You don’t know any better. My hope and prayer is that you find Jesus and that Jesus would refine me into the image of himself so that I could be patient and loving with you and ultimately be His hands and feet and bring you the good news.
Sorry,
K.B.