2006-07-24 14:52:47 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
what gets me about those who espouse 'tolerance' is that they wont permit me to disagree with them!
2006-07-24 14:55:23 · answer #1 · answered by Aslan 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, you can be tolerant of others beliefs, and still have your own.
Being open minded and accepting of others does not mean that you will be walked all over, as someone above me answered.
Permissiveness is the act of granting permission, allowing someone to do something, and I dont know how many people are going to wait for others permission to do anything. That sounds rather childish.
2006-07-24 22:20:00 · answer #2 · answered by Mx2 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Those who are tolerant will be run over and over again until you cannot stand and fight for what you believe or stand up for. If you stand for something you are considered a hateful man or woman. If you rock the proverbial boat then people are offended and sue you.
Geeze when did it become a good thing to cower and get stepped on? I would say stand for something, stand up and believe what you say! Heck you might be right or wrong, but geeze at least people would know exactly where you stand.
When you are double minded you are not stable. You are always trying to please everyone except yourself (and God).
Please do this, read Revelations the first couple of chapters in which it describes the churches. This will give you an insight into what God does not want and what He does want.
If you are doubleminded you are easily influenced and cannot possible stand firm on anything.
2006-07-24 22:01:54 · answer #3 · answered by waeyeaw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't speak for others, but no, religious tolerance does not mean that to me. I do not care if someone gives me permission---I have been a legal adult for 25 years living in a country that does not force it's people to practice a particular religion. I do not need anyone's permission to do what I feel is right for me. And other people certainly do not need my permission to believe what they feel is right.
By religious tolerance I mean that I show others respect for their views and am polite. It does not mean that I agree with their views--only that I do not seek to force my beliefs upon others. I try to understand the views of others because it helps me to relate with them. I am secure enough in my own faith that it does not threaten my faith to learn about the faiths of others and acknowledge that they have a path different from mine.
2006-07-24 22:03:57 · answer #4 · answered by Witchy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. When we say we want tolerance, that means we want tolerance. We want people in one group to understand that their views are not absolute and others have the right to follow their own creeds and religions. Tolerance means that it's perfectly okay for someone to be christian, atheist, muslim, wiccan, a satanist, agnostic, or an Elvis worshipper. Tolerance means that you accept someone's right to not be like you.
Tolerance leads to peace, you know. Intolerance leads to oppression when you discover you can't convert everyone to your own personal religion.
Permission is not needed and it doesn't mean that it's giving people permission to do things like rape, pillage, murder, and cruelty to animals.
2006-07-24 22:04:13 · answer #5 · answered by Muffie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the two are different.
Tolerance:Tolerance is a recent political term used within debates in areas of social, cultural and religious context, as an emphatic antithesis to discrimination, as such may advocate persecution.
Permission:One is said to have a permission when he or she may (or is allowed to) perform some action. There are legal and ethical permissions, but these can also belong to some other normative realms, like etiquette and games.
2006-07-24 21:58:43 · answer #6 · answered by Debra M. Wishing Peace To All 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a fine line to this...
I mean, if you force everyone to follow a certain religious code, or law, then how can you tell who is sincere and who is just faking?
In this respect, tolerance is a good thing.
But i agree with you that most who say that are just upset that they cannot have freedom to be more worldly.
2006-07-24 21:55:30 · answer #7 · answered by truebeliever_777 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Be care of being too open minded; your brains may fall out.
Ironic...that everyone screams for tolerance; but there is little or no tolerance for Christians and or Christianity.
Look at our forefathers; they left Europe because of religious persecution (Catholicism)...and now, Prayer has been taken out of schools, Bible's have been taken out of schools and God has been taken out of our schools. Now we have a generation that is scared to go to school because now, kids die in schools. It's a sad state of affairs.
Grace to you and God bless!
2006-07-24 21:56:29 · answer #8 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are correct - but one day there will be 0 tolerance - judgment day.
Check out http://www.johnfourteen.com
Look at "Studies in the Bible"
many answers to everyday life
can be found there.
2006-07-24 21:57:45 · answer #9 · answered by M. E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ABSOLUTELY NOT!
NO ONE REQUIRES "YOUR" PERMISSION TO DO ANYTHING. NO ONE except your own underage children!
What they mean is quit being hateful, spiteful, judgemental *ssholes who are so unchristlike that you may as well be muslims.
Christ was kind and loved sinners, to the point of eating with them, saying "better to have them near "their doctor" than without one." But no christians, they would rather sit back on their Holiness and point fingers.
2006-07-24 21:58:06 · answer #10 · answered by AdamKadmon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not entirely, no. When people say we should be "tolerant", they mean to say: "if it doesn't harm you, other people, or civilization as a whole in any manner that can be empirically validated, then whether or not other people do it is none of your buisness."
2006-07-24 22:14:18 · answer #11 · answered by extton 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋