BernardKingGOAT
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That makes it no different then anything else in life then doesn't it? Because the common denominator between the two is humanity. Being "tolerant" on line item issues like LGBTQ doesn't make you any more or less of a "tolerant" person or "douche" than being a person of faith.The badge is optional. If it's indoctrination so is the faith component. People have different values and you're clearly missing these two. I would much rather hang out with somebody who is tolerant and accepting of different strokes than someone who has faith. Faith is not a personal value that directly offers anybody else anything. It's cool that faith leads some people to be nice and service oriented. It also leads some people to be intolerant douches.
That makes it no different then anything else in life then doesn't it? Because the common denominator between the two is humanity. Being "tolerant" on line item issues like LGBTQ doesn't make you any more or less of a "tolerant" person or "douche" than being a person of faith.
Then again if you are so tolerant you completely blur the lines of morality/good you also lose. Some things simply aren't worthy of tolerance. There's a line both sides blur. I happen to believe that right now the "tolerant side" are the ones more entrenched in that gray area so to speak.It's the tolerance paradox.
At no point have I expressed a problem with persons of faith in general. All I said is that some people turn their faith into douchiness. You are right that some people turn their tolerant politics into douchiness. IDC if I'm a little mean to an individual who is being mean to a whole group of people. Therein lies the difference you're looking for. If you're not intolerant of the intolerant, then you eventually lose.
Paradox of tolerance - Wikipedia
Then again if you are so tolerant you completely blur the lines of morality/good you also lose. Some things simply aren't worthy of tolerance. There's a line both sides blur. I happen to believe that right now the "tolerant side" are the ones more entrenched in that gray area so to speak.
But that's exactly what both sides believe they are doing.... And both are misguided. Which comes back to my original point. One is no better than the other
That's a difficult question.... At least for a Christian. You don't hate the person or group, you hate the sin if you follow Christianity, at least as I understand it.Your original point was directed at me, and I have already explained that there is a huge difference between being intolerant of an opinion and being intolerant of a group. Why are you going back to that point? I don't belong to the group you are talking about because I do not force my LGBTQ will on others.
Try this...if you are intolerant of the opinion that homosexuality is a sin, is that worse, better, or just as offensive as being intolerant of Christians as a whole?