Comment Re:Wow! (Score 1) 1535
I agree completely and I did not mean to imply that.
I guess that to a certain extent I overstated my point. I was mostly responding to the universalist/relativistic tendencies that seemed to be present there. The standard idea under these world views is that everyone is right, and no one is wrong, and anyone that claims that they actually are RIGHT (and by implications others wrong) is intolerant. I was merely trying to point out that by that definition of tolerance their viewpoint is also intolerant because it does not allow for others to believe things.
In reality, I believe that tolerance is simply accepting people for who they are and what they believe. As a Christian this means that I have friends who are atheists, Budhists, homosexuals, and agnostics. Do I believe that these people are wrong and that there is an eternal consequence to their choices? Yes, of course I do. That does not mean that I do not tolerate their opinions and their beliefs however. It just means that I listen to their point of view and attempt to explain to them why I believe I have a better option. They are free to choose from there. I did not mean to fall in to the modern trap of intolerance accusations and I apologize for that.
I guess that to a certain extent I overstated my point. I was mostly responding to the universalist/relativistic tendencies that seemed to be present there. The standard idea under these world views is that everyone is right, and no one is wrong, and anyone that claims that they actually are RIGHT (and by implications others wrong) is intolerant. I was merely trying to point out that by that definition of tolerance their viewpoint is also intolerant because it does not allow for others to believe things.
In reality, I believe that tolerance is simply accepting people for who they are and what they believe. As a Christian this means that I have friends who are atheists, Budhists, homosexuals, and agnostics. Do I believe that these people are wrong and that there is an eternal consequence to their choices? Yes, of course I do. That does not mean that I do not tolerate their opinions and their beliefs however. It just means that I listen to their point of view and attempt to explain to them why I believe I have a better option. They are free to choose from there. I did not mean to fall in to the modern trap of intolerance accusations and I apologize for that.
