Why do people demand tolerance from Christians, when...?

Question

those people are not tolerant of Christians and/or Christianity?

I would also like to appoligize for all the fellow Christians that try to "force" their beliefs on people instead of just have a friendly conversation about faith and belief, and then deciding to agree to disagree... I think both sides would agree that "forcing" views is no way to get people to understand what you believe and it probably wont convince the other party either.

Answer 1

When was the last time a Buddhist knocked on your door, interrupted you in what you were doing, and in an obnoxious way tried to share their faith? When was the last time a Muslim approached you on the street and tried to embarrass you into accepting literature pertaining to their faith? When was the last time a Taoist walked into your buisness, sat down in a chair reserved for paying clients, and procceded to quiz you on your beliefs in an attempt to convert you? When was the last time your phone rang and, leaving your meal to get cold, you answered it only to hear a plea for money from a Wiccan so that their coven could add you to the supporters of their building fund? I tolerate Christians. But I refuse to allow them to trespass on MY RIGHTS!!! IF YOU CONSIDER THAT INTOLERANT ON MY PART PERHAPS YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS ... Show me your faith by your living it. If I like what I see maybe I'll ask you how to get what you've got. Other wise ... RESPECT MY SPACE AS I RESPECT YOURS!!! Its as simple as this ... For hundreds of years Christians, some at least, have had the upper hand in things like numbers, politics, etc. NOW that's changing. Others refuse to put up with it any longer, and rightly so. I've said it before, and now I'll share it with you ... The shoes not all that comfortable when its on the other foot, is it? I'm just glad that not all Christians fall into the above catagories. Those are the ones I listen to ... As, in their own quiet way, they live their truth. They have my attention. They others? Well, I tolerate them. You probably think yourself persecuted. I ask you this ... How many times, and how much, blood have you lost due to your faith? How many times have you been beaten because you're a Christian? Never, I'll wager. But someone tells you to back off and you consider yourself ill used. I got news for you. Untill the 1970s MY FAITH WAS ILLEGAL TO PRACTICE IN THE U.S.! (And it wasn't because of any thing like animal sacrifice, or stuff like that either. It was because my people were second class citizens at best, and no one cared one way or the other what we believed.)Know what I learned from that? I learned to be tolerant. You might like to take a hint. ~~~ P.S. One of the posts above speakes of Paul's having taught Christians to be tolerant. Its taken out of context. Paul was admonishing his followers to be tolerant of one another. It has nothing to do with those outside the Christian community. It pertains only to Christians themselves. It has nothing to do with whats going on now, and it doesn't honestly touch on the topic at hand. And the "new" tolerance? Kinda easy to make up a concept that covers your rear, one that no one else has ever even heard of. But, hey, it sounds good ... Untill you THINK about it. And one person apologizing for the actions of others? No. That doesn't wash. That's not your right. Its unacceptable. You take responsibility for your own actions. That's cool. I promise not to say I'm sorry for what happened at Little Big Horn in return.

Answer 2

Christianity, and any other monotheistic religions, are by their very nature, intolerant.

This is a fact. There is no denying it. But you, as a Christian, don't see it this way. Your definition of intolerant is not the same as an atheist's, for example.

We tolerate you to an excrutiating degree. How many of your tax dollars go to fund atheist "outreach" programs, for example? Do you have any idea how infuriating it is for us to see our taxes, that could be spent on actual worthwhile projects, going to fund a school that teaches 3rd-world children to believe in "Santa Claus" (ie: God)?

Actually, you probably don't have any idea. But think it over sometime.

Answer 3

They aren't demanding tolerance from Christians. They are treating Christians as insignificant. This is a point where a small group of people allow their rage to show and expect respect from it. These "demanders" don't really want tolerance as much as full fledged acceptance. They really aren't trying to "just get along" as much as they're trying to "be the norm."

Answer 4

Because tolerance is one of the virtues Christ professed most often. Claiming to be more moral because you follow Christ, and then being intolerant of others, is hypocritical and disrespectful to his teachings. If I am not Christian, then I don't have to follow those rules.

Answer 5

Because They Are Hypocrites!....And They Believe In A Double Standard!....

Answer 6

Human nature, even as a Christian, I see it goes both ways.

Answer 7

So true read on:

The New Tolerance vs. Christian Convictions
Josh McDowell


For most of my life, I thought I knew what people meant when they used the word "tolerance." But I have discovered that what the word once meant and what it means today are two drastically different things. The new meaning, which I'll refer to as the "new tolerance," stretches far beyond the dictionary's definition of the word. This new meaning is enjoying widespread acceptance throughout our culture, and the implication for your Christian faith, and for the faith of our Christian youth in particular, is alarming.

Webster's defines the word "tolerate" as follows:
"to recognize and respect [others' beliefs, practices, etc.] without sharing them" and "to bear or put up with [someone or something not especially liked]."1



This traditional definition is perfectly compatible with Scripture. In fact, the Bible says we are to "accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God" (Romans 15:17, NIV). This is the same attitude that Paul expressed in his first epistle to the Corinthian church when he explained that love "endureth all things" (13:7, KJV). This type of tolerance differentiates between a person's thoughts or actions and the person himself. Unfortunately, the dictionary definitions of tolerance no longer capture the full meaning promoted by the "new tolerance;" at least not according to the majority of people and institutions using the term. And this is increasingly true among younger generations.

I would estimate that approximately 80 percent of the time that the word "tolerance" is used today - by teachers, the media, government officials, and perhaps even your own children - it is being used to mean the "new tolerance," which says that what every individual believes or says is equally right and equally valid. In other words, all values, beliefs, lifestyles, and truth claims are equal.

G. K. Chesterton, the English author who strongly influenced the life and writing of C.S. Lewis, once said, "Tolerance is a virtue of a man without convictions." This statement alludes to one of the dire consequence of the new tolerance: the loss of conviction. In order for a person to possess convictions about a belief, it is necessary, by definition, for the person to be convinced that his or her belief is true. But if I sincerely consider everyone's beliefs, lifestyles, and truth claims as equal to my own (even when they contradict my beliefs, lifestyles, and truth claims), I can no longer claim any genuine conviction regarding my own beliefs. The new tolerance requires me to admit that I may just as easily be as mistaken or misled as my neighbor. If no truth is "more true" than any other "truth," then there is no truth worth defending. And if there is no truth worth defending, there is no room for conviction.

This is why it is so important for parents, teachers, and youth workers to pass on to our children what we as Christians believe to be absolutely true - that Jesus Christ is who He claimed to be: the way, the truth, and the life. But how do we know that? How can we be sure whose view of God and whose claims about truth are right? What is the basis of these convictions we are passing on to our children?

When faced with competing truth claims, the only way to arrive at a meaningful conclusion is by investigation. The careful observer must weigh the claims according to the evidence. If someone claims that something is true, we should be able to "test" that claim to determine if it is based on fact.

The only way to determine God's true identity is through open-minded consideration of the evidence. Christianity does not revolve around a list of spiritual exercises and practices, but around a core of verifiable, historical facts about a person and his claims to be God. Jesus Himself appealed to people's reason and the evidence of His deity. "Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in me?" He asked. "Or at least believe because of what you have seen me do (John 14:10-11). Christ wanted His followers to believe in Him for whom He claimed to be, so He appealed to the evidence that established that He was, in fact, the Son of the one true God. The evidence was and is there to convince our minds that Christ's claims are objectively true.

We want our kids to have solid convictions that will enable them to stand strong in today's culture, but it is vitally important that we help them to build those convictions on objective truth. If our youth are to come to any meaningful conclusions about right and wrong, good and evil, we must - now more than ever - help them to examine the evidences for the reliability of the Bible and the veracity of its claims about Christ's being the Son of the one true God.

Answer 8

I'm just demanding, that, if they can't tolerate me, they just leave me alone. It shouldn't be all that hard, now, should it?

Answer 9

A little thing called hipocricy.

Answer 10

My theory is that

"I wont preach to you my belief,"

"If you dont preach to me ur disbelief"