TOLERABLY INTOLERANT

Tolerance (täl (ə) rəns, noun): The ability or willingness to tolerate something, in particular the existence of opinions and behavior that one does not agree with or respect. Historically, to be Tolerant has meant to allow, without prohibition or hindrance, ethnic, cultural, national, and religious opinions and practices that differ from one’s own.   It has never carried the connotation of “approval,” approving of or agreeing with these opinions and practices, the forced change of one’s personal opinion from disapproval to acceptance for the sake of being considered Tolerant... never until now! Intolerance, with the prefix “in”, simply means “not tolerant.” The world’s meaning of the word Tolerance now demands acquiescence of one’s personal opinions and practices, under the guise of respecting and agreeing with the opinions and practices of others, in order to be considered Tolerant. Secular progressives use the fear of being labeled intolerant as a pry bar attempting to force acceptance of their aberrant secular opinions and practices upon Christians and non-secular institutions. Secular progressives are intolerant of the Christian faith and the Christian’s right to tolerate without agreement or respect the opinions and practices that are contrary to their beliefs. Let’s call a spade a spade: God’s truth must not be high-jacked by the world’s demand for unqualified Tolerance. The Christian life is not a popularity contest. The world hated our Savior... and should hate us... for the very beliefs that make us intolerant in the world’s eyes!

We live in a society without a moral compass in which choice is king, there are no moral absolutes, truth is one’s personal perception, and every individual is a free moral agent. We are taught to be self-reliant and independent, and that tolerance is a synonym for love. Christianity is no longer the automatic default faith, especially of our youth who prefer either no belief system or a Self composed hodge-podge of tenets taken from any source their wandering mind stumbles upon. Self’s desire and love for the pleasures of life and unrestrained Self appeasement are winning the battle for the heart and soul of man. The accelerating erosion of spiritual life will continue and increase, and the gap between what God’s moral tenets teach and what mankind chooses to believe and practice will continue to grow. Spiritual erosion will continue and escalate until the morally unthinkable becomes common place. Peace... even the earthly kind, will be increasingly difficult to find.

The lines are drawn between the progressively secular world and a God who has spoken! Tolerance and defending our right to be tolerant, often with the false stigmatism of being labeled intolerant, is not fun for those doing the tolerating, but it is necessary. As Christians we should and must stand up for our faith tenets: It is absolutely “OK” for a Christian to vocally oppose and even protest against opinions and practices that violate God’s word, to do so is to exhibit tolerance. But it is not OK to unlawfully hinder or prohibit that which is lawful. The secular progressive agenda is to institutionalize their lifestyle into law, making opinions and practices which are an abomination to God legal, and using the rule of law – with the full force of government behind it -- to force acceptance from Christian denominations and institutions. This may force the true Church, The Body of Christ, to go underground as the official structures and institutions inevitably cave to the corrupted legal system. We are, after all, living in the End Times!

But God Himself has broken into our silence; He has come down to earth Himself, and He has spoken! And nothing else is truly relevant... Nothing but God! For nothing else can save us from our Self and the powers of darkness which envelope planet earth. The age in which we live is a social cesspool, a floating mass of thoughts, opinions, maxims, speculations, impulses, desires, aims and aspirations which are contrary to God and constitute a most real and effective power, being the immoral atmosphere of which, at every moment of our lives, we inhale. Only God can save us…

GOD HIMSELF HAS SPOKEN