If christians are told that they are a threat to existence of a aheist lifestyle and they are about?

Question

condemnation, how do you respond to this remark?
Isn't this a double standard in the usage of tolerance by those who claim to be tolerant?

Answer 1

You know, I don't think that Jesus taught tolerance. He taught love, kindness, and respect for your fellow man, but He was intolerant of sin. Remember when He was furious with the moneychangers in the temple? He was definitely intolerant of that. He teaches forgiveness, not judgement. To forgive someone, they must have done something wrong. Is it right to ignore the transgression? Probably not, because ignoring something doesn't fix it. Would you tolerate your child being a prostitute or selling drugs or murdering people? You love them too much to allow them to continue doing that. So, in summation, Christianity is not about tolerance. It is about love.

Answer 2

What I feel is that religion should be within your homes not in the streets. More damage is done in the name of religion that anything else. Why cant we be human beings and accept all as fellow human beings first. With the power to think and act given to us let us break all barriers that have been created by various people for varied reasons down the ages and come together. Global boundaries have today minimised with the open skies....open up the heart and learn to love not hate.

Answer 3

The majority of atheists just want to be left alone about their beliefs, actually. When religious ideals get in the way of someone's life, for example someone dying who could have been cured by now if not for a ban on stem cell research, then a conflict is presented.

(I'm one of these. The one I love was recently disagnosed with lupus, the type that can easily turn on your internal organs and kill you...a study completed in January showed that even at our preliminary level of research, half of patients treated with stem cell therapy were FREE of the disease...lupus, an incurable, chronic disease, was CURED. Can this ever happen for him? Not in our current state. Would you stand by and watch the one you love suffer in pain and agony every day when it was simply someone else's morals holding back the cure?)

Answer 4

The tolerant are intolerant of the tolerant! Christians are intolerant because they try to tell other people what to do and what to believe," is a common complaint from those who have been witnessed to by a zealous Christian. Although the actions of Christians are often interpreted as intolerance, the primary reason why Christians are seen as intolerant is because the perceived, politically-correct definition of tolerance has changed over the years.
To begin, it would be good to know what the word "intolerant" really means, in order to determine if Christians really are intolerant:
in·tol·er·ant
Function: adjective
Date: circa 1735
1 : unable or unwilling to endure
2 a : unwilling to grant equal freedom of expression especially in religious matters

The really remarkable thing about the definition of intolerant is that those who say we Christians are intolerant and should not express our religious beliefs are the ones who actually fit the definition. Tolerance is not about accepting every one else's beliefs, but merely being willing to listen to those beliefs. In contrast to many other religious beliefs, evangelical Christians rate quite high on the scale of being willing to discuss religious beliefs on a moment's notice.

Tolerance does not mean that we automatically accept every one else's beliefs as being true. Contrary to popular belief, religions do not teach the same things, and, so, they can't all be true. Belief, in and of itself does not make that belief true. Ravi Zacharias, a Christian writer, warns, "Truth cannot be sacrificed at the altar of pretended tolerance. Real tolerance is deference to all ideas, not indifference to the truth." Christianity is the prime example why all religions cannot be true. Virtually every other world religion, other than Christianity, teaches that a person can become acceptable to God on the basis of their actions in life. In contrast, Christianity teaches that no person, no matter what they do, can become acceptable to God through their own actions.2 In Christianity, acceptance by God is based upon the completed work of Jesus Christ,3 through belief that His sacrifice makes us acceptable.4 Therefore, Christianity and other religions cannot all be simultaneously true, since they teach opposite ideas about how one becomes acceptable to God. A Christian cannot accept other belief systems as being true and still maintain his own belief system, since they are directly contradictory.

The Christian is most often claimed to be "intolerant" when he refuses to accept and speaks out against "alternative lifestyles," such as cohabitation or homosexual behavior. Again, this is an improper use of the word "intolerant." Tolerance does not require acceptance of all ideas as being true, but merely a willingness to hear alternative beliefs. Those who say that Christians should not express their beliefs are actually the ones who are being intolerant, since they are unwilling to grant equal freedom of expression to Christian beliefs

Answer 5

Um, Christians are not a threat to the existence of an athiest lifestyle. Who are you suggesting is claiming to be tolerant? What the hell are you talking about?

Answer 6

Maybe they are, as it seems religion is pushing further and further into matters of the State (where they should NOT be). Many people feel that the United States is becoming more and more of a theocracy, and let's face it- we ALL know how tolerant fundamentalist religious people (of ANY denomination) are.

Answer 7

They want to be a threat to that lifestyle. In the game of religion there are winners and losers and the Christians don't want to be the losers and if they are they want to take the rest of us with them so they are not alone.

Answer 8

I don't know of any Christian that tolerates sin.We are soldiers for God and all sin is the enemy.

Answer 9

all Christians are in a cult (whether they know it or not) there's no man that lives in the sky.... Christians leaders want to grow the ranks(flock of sheep looking to follow) so they can collect more $$ from the ignorant

Answer 10

I am not threatoned by xianity.
I can live with them all as long as they'r moderate.