In other words, who should be the most tolerant in your view. Please state your religion.
If you dont understand the question.... please try and be nice.
ok.... shoot....
2006-09-01 04:54:30 · 36 answers · asked by CJunk 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
@ bocoo_man
correction accommodate is NOT support. It is to give way. tolerate if you will. Support is to agree with and give encouragement. please dont confuse Support with Accommodate
2006-09-01 05:03:02 · update #1
@ yankeecowboy10
I love what you said. I havent heard much at all on Lutherans. I dont think I could really ever like martin Luther. But letherans today... i would like to know more of these people. dont get me wrong, i am an atheist, but if you is any example, you guys might be able to show me that not all christians are complete nut jobs.
2006-09-01 05:30:44 · update #2
Staing: I'm a Christian.
Our scripture tells us clearly that the world will hate us because we're Christians. What more should be expected? I get up in arms at times over people who are despicably hateful, but it happens. I can't expect someone who does not understand the concepts of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control (the friut of the Spirit produced in a Godly way) to behave as if they did. It's our responsibility as Christians to demonstrate a heart of those same qualities to those people. Only through love and gentleness will we ever hope of showing the world that we are any different than they are.
Sometimes we do better than others. We are not absent of anger or frustration. But I do get tired of non believers pointing fingers to scream about when we do someting that doesn't reflect Jesus. It's going to happen. We are followers of Christ, not God Himself. We are people, not little gods. We are imperfect sinners, and we do not (with a few immature people as exceptions) claim to be anything else.
2006-09-01 05:04:32 · answer #1 · answered by lizardmama 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are two ways to look at it: 1. Christians should be tolerant as a testimony of God's love. 2. Non-believers should be tolerant because (at least in the US) they're the minority. Following the majority-rule idea, Christians shouldn't have to bend over backwards to avoid offending non-believers....it should be the other way around. That's if you're talking about tolerance. As for accomodating........why should we go out of our way to accomodate a minority (non-believers) while abusing a majority (Christians)? Of course as Christians we shouldn't set out to offend anyone purposely, but neither should we be made to feel inferior? Something like 80% of the US population is either Christian or Jewish. So why are we the ones who are having to be so careful about offending that 20%?
I'm Christian if you couldn't tell lol.
2006-09-01 05:06:40 · answer #2 · answered by married_so_leave_me_alone1999 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I feel that both should be accomodating of each other. It seems that there is a great deal of anti-Christian sentiment out there these days. For those of us who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ, I feel that we should always take the humble, "turn the other cheek" path.
At the same time, I don't feel that people should compromise their faith or belief system to "tolerate" something they feel is wrong or goes against their faith. We can differ on our beliefs, and still value each other as individual human beings. I think that's the most important thing: to learn how to see an individual as a person, not just as a set of beliefs.
2006-09-01 05:12:03 · answer #3 · answered by lucybelle 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I was raised Catholic and now I really don't subscribe to any religion. I think everyone should be tolerant of everyone else. But in the end if we are looking at beliefs that people have then Christians should be more tolerant since they are told to turn the other cheek and treat their enemy as their friend.
2006-09-01 05:01:51 · answer #4 · answered by wyldcatt76 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, it depends on what you mean by accomodating. If you mean to be polite, than both groups need to really do that, it is especially important for Christians, as this is what the bible calls for.
If you mean to sacrifice what is truth, than no. But Peter addressed this topic once:
15Instead, you must worship Christ as Lord of your life. And if you are asked about your Christian hope, always be ready to explain it. 16But you must do this in a gentle and respectful way. Keep your conscience clear. Then if people speak evil against you, they will be ashamed when they see what a good life you live because you belong to Christ. 17Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!
1 Peter 3:15-17
2006-09-01 05:00:10 · answer #5 · answered by Steve M 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I fail to see why belief should have anything to do with accommodation. Nobody should try to force their beliefs upon another, nor should anyone be offended by recieving a SOLICITED answer to a question. I personally refuse to be accommodating to any jerkoff that knocks on my door at 9am on Saturday morning asking me if I found Jesus. This is simply rude and there should be a law against it.
I'm Jewish and proud to be so. I accept christians as gentiles misled by centuries of propaganda twisting the words of a rabbi zealot, and do not blame them for being brainwashed by the world's second largest cult.
2006-09-01 05:03:16 · answer #6 · answered by Rather Notsay 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Ok here goes
I am not real religious but was riased in the Luthern faith an I do believe in a higher power.Christian teachings say we should be tolerant of our fellow beings on this earth.To keep the faith,so to speak we all have good in us. It just depends on if we chose to exersise our goodness,Personally I perfer to be treated with kindness and compassion this is how I try to be with others.
2006-09-01 05:07:45 · answer #7 · answered by yankeecowboy10 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
How about everybody should be tolerant. If it's just one side then it is placing a value judgement. We should all be willing to accept the "other" and their point of view. There should be no cases of exceptionality (as in "I'm exceptional, I have the real truth"). Living with tolerance is what is called civil society, as opposed to tribalism.
2006-09-01 05:17:30 · answer #8 · answered by Sincere Questioner 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Both. There is too much intolerance on all sides. Instead of trying to convert others to your point of view, we should be just accepting that we are all different. There is a reason it is called belief and not fact just as there are theories not proven facts. The only thing we all should know for certain is that we need to get along on this planet.
Wiccan ~ Blessed Be )O(
2006-09-01 05:12:48 · answer #9 · answered by Stephen 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I believe that all people should tolerate those that they possibly can. I many cases, it should be everybody, but there is no a single perfect person in the world, and that is ideological instead of practical. We are all human and should love everyone because of it...not necessarily like them, but love them on basic principles.
I'm agnostic.
2006-09-01 05:03:04 · answer #10 · answered by Scott L. 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋