Seriously. It seems hypocritical. Someone please answer this for me.
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2007-10-15 08:46:11 · 11 answers · asked by AwesomeJoeKnows 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
It is seriously hypocritical. Much more than simple tolerance, Jesus told us to actively love one another. Yet many fundamentalists actually uses Jesus's name and nominal teachings to hate and exclude people. How hypocritical is that?
In their ignorance, they actually preach that Jesus Himself was intolerant of others, ignoring examples like the woman at the well and the tax-collectors and other "low life" He shared His love with.
2007-10-15 08:49:27 · answer #1 · answered by Acorn 7 · 9⤊ 3⤋
I assume you are talking about Christians preaching tolerance. Non-Christians are preaching tolerance to Christians, NOT the other way around!! Christians are not taught to be tolerant. There is right and there is wrong and we should all be intolerant of things that are wrong...should we be tolerant of a mother ready to kill her preborn baby? Would the baby want us to be tolerant of the mother's selfishness??
2007-10-15 08:57:11 · answer #2 · answered by Kicking 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because it is easy to preach than to practice, and perhaps their religions teachings says so. Since they believe this teaching and following it, they make it happen. Hence they are tolerent of people of their own faith. Belief molds behavior!
2007-10-15 08:53:21 · answer #3 · answered by thachu5 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm tolerant of everybody except those trying to kill me because I don't believe like them. And you people complain about Christians. Go figure...
2007-10-15 08:55:47 · answer #4 · answered by D.A. S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
They preach tolerance for themselves - not tolerance of others. As long as they get theirs, the rest can go hang.
2007-10-15 08:50:33 · answer #5 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 4⤊ 3⤋
Looks like C.J. is the archetypal Christian, eh? So fun...also...they should teach tolerance...but there is few who actually follow what they teach, it's always, "Do as I say, not what I do," mentality...I hate it but...there's nothing we can do, is there?
2007-10-15 08:54:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because they don't believe that everyone is the holder of their own absolute truth and has to walk their own path by coming to their own conclusions, whatever their beliefs
2007-10-15 09:03:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think beign tolerant and beign religous have nothing to do with each other and we should be tolerant of people regardless of what they practice
2007-10-15 08:55:08 · answer #8 · answered by chadjuly4 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The bible teaches a very INGROUP morality. People in the INGROUP are considered good and people not in the INGROUP are considered bad. This is true to varying degrees in the OT and NT.
I'd like to think it is not part of a modern interpretation but, I suspect it is.
2007-10-15 08:49:59 · answer #9 · answered by Alan 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Jesus wasn't at all tolerant of beliefs other than what He said is true. That is the example to follow.
2007-10-15 08:49:50 · answer #10 · answered by CJ 6 · 5⤊ 9⤋