Can we disagree and yet be tolerant of one another?
In the news today, I heard of a 10 year girl kicked out of school for espousing her Catholic faith in London.
This is a serious topic, but I hope to share my thoughts respectfully and with a bit of humor. I hope we might perhaps disagree, but do so with respect, tolerance and love. In my opinion this is an important reminder that tolerance does not require total agreement, and that in fact people can respectfully disagree.
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UK TEACHER SUSPENDS CATHOLIC STUDENT FOR ‘HOMOPHOBIA’
"This is why parents are beginning to see the dangers of the imposition of the new sexual and gender ideology that does not permit dissent even from innocent 10-year-old children," Andrea Minichiello Williams, executive director of the Christian Legal Centre, representing the parents of the suspended children, told Church Militant. Susan Papas, head of Heavers Farmer Primary School in Croydon, South London, suspended two children for five days after one of them asked permission not to participate in an LGBT lesson during Gay Pride Month.
I originally heard about this topic from The Amazing Lucas on YouTube, and below I will link his video on this topic.
Amazing Lucas | 10 year old SUSPENDED for Religious Beliefs
Christianity is founded upon Love, Humility & Mercy
When people insist tolerance needs to be taught in school, or it might not be taught at all, I say no. Fortunately the western world is founded upon Christian ethics and that includes tolerance and love.
The Christian ethic is founded upon the idea that all humanity was made in God's image, and that therefore there is something divine of us. Therefore, to destroy, and hate a member of the human family is to offend the sacredness of God's image, and creation: We are not to do this.
What's more Christians are taught not to judge others, and to be careful about our critiques over other people's lifestyles, because we are told to focus upon our own failures primarily.
Tolerance does not necessitate my acceptance of your "truth"
For me to love and respect my neighbor does not require my acceptance of their lifestyle and choices. In fact, the idea that tolerance requires acceptance of your truth and denial my own is rooted in fascism, not love and freedom. I am quite able to love you and disagree with how you live, the two are not mutually exclusive.
Of course, we can disagree and yet be tolerant of one another.
I can simultaneously disapprove of your unhealthy dietary choices and yet respect and love you as a person, can't I?
In fact, often the only way to truly love another person is to express disagreement with your lifestyle. Imagine a friend who disapproves with his friend's terrible diet, they might be heard saying: "I think you should be careful", and "I am concerned about you". Or a child might desire ice cream for dinner, but a loving parent says this is not good for you.
Or perhaps closer to the mark, a man might desire to sleep with as many women as will let him, but I would argue that is neither good for himself, nor the women. I do not speak out of judgement, nor condemnation, nor intolerance. I speak, and I live out of love, knowing that I am filled with failure and so humility must soak every word I utter, yet my opinions are my own and if someone asks I will say them honestly.
The question as I see it is this, when we speak to one another, do we do so out of love, or condemnation?
In the same way, when a Christian, or Muslim stands in opposition to the homosexual lifestyle we are not standing in condemnation of the individual, exactly the opposite. We are trying to love the person by expressing our faith honestly, in a manner that might reveal the real God's love for his creation and design for human flourishing. If you disagree, so be it, I won't force you to accept my ideas.
Closing Remarks:
Is modern PC culture intolerant?
We may meet, debate, and disagree, you may wholly reject my belief in God's creation and his idea of what man and woman were made for, that is OK. You can disagree, it is a free country, isn't it?
Having said that, by the same stripe you ought to respect my opinion and let me live in peace as I see fit, in the same manner you demand of me for you. The good news is even when we disagree, we can live together in what I consider "love", namely to stand apart respectfully, desiring the best for one another, as far as it can be obtained.
So, in closing I'd just like to say, I am able to respect you while at the same time holding a disagreement with your belief, can you? And if not, who is the intolerant one?
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Well said yes we can disagree and be tolerant.
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Did you hear about the intolerance from the LEFT in Portland USA? Frigging Antifa... they are the type of intolerance I am thinking of when I wrote this article.
It's like the "left" thinks the "right" is the devil, and yet the left is the side that is kicking kids out of school for faith positions, and beating journalists in the streets of America.
No I have not heard that.
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Antifa was walking through Portland earlier this week, and they beat a journalist, with rocks, metal bars, and liquids and eggs. The guy, Andy Ngo, is a conservative gay, asian journalist and they dont like that combo. They gave the guy a brain bleed, and they did all this while chanting "no hate, no violence".
Because they stand against hate and violence... #irony
"love trumps hate.... and now I throw the quick drying cement on you"
Antifa and the SJW left is basically like hateful people who accuse the right of all the things they're guilty of.
Yes the hypocrisy is incredibly.
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