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INTOLERANCE

In an article for Newsweek, Fareed Zakaria berated Christian preachers for making anti-Muslim statements. He called their statements, “bigoted rantings by preachers.” He wrote, “Falwell, Robertson and Graham’s hate-filled campaign is lighting fires that could grow into a terrible conflagration.”

—Newsweek, October 21, 2002, p. 40 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Isn’t Zakari’s article the pot calling the kettle intolerant? Don’t his words seem hate-filled? I guess it is wrong to criticize anyone in the Muslim world, but OK to have a field day on Christian preachers.

Amos 5:10 NLT “How you hate honest judges! How you despise people who tell the truth!”

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INTOLERANCE

On June 16, 1998 Senator Trent Lott taped an interview for “The Armstrong Williams Show” on the America's Voice television network. During the interview, Williams asked Lott whether he considers homosexuality a sin and Lott replied, “Yeah, it is.”

Lott added: “You should still love that person. You should not try to mistreat them or treat them as outcasts. You should try to show them a way to deal with that problem, just like alcohol… or sex addiction… or kleptomaniacs.” (AP-NY-06-16-98 0922 EDT)

What was the response of the Gay Community? One web site featured the AP article with the headline: "Trent Lott: Hate Mongering Homophobic Christian Bigot Exposed." The page also included the word "moron" several times in reference to those who want to show love toward homosexuals and help them deal with their problem.

—http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/lott-gay.htm Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

Isn't that response a bit intolerant? Aren't those who are angry with Christianity's so-called intolerance showing extreme intolerance themselves with their reaction to it?

INTOLERANCE

An anonymous woman decided having her wedding guests eat from a vegan menu, her preferred lifestyle, was not enough. She demanded every guest vow to adopt a vegan lifestyle, even after the wedding was over. She disinvited all the guests from her wedding who refused to give up meat for the rest of their lives. The post went viral before Facebook took it down. The 20-year-old woman explained that among those she eliminated from her guest list were her mother and two cousins who were to act as bridesmaids.

The Week, March 8, 2019, p. 12

As we become more and more divided on social issues in our modern culture, this is just another example of drawing our circle of influence smaller and smaller. As believers, we need to learn to draw our circle larger and larger. How can you influence people if you shut them out of your life? —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell.

Luke 14:23 (CSB)  “Then the master told the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges and make them come in, so that my house may be filled.”