The devil prays for a president…or something less dramatic. January 14, 2009

One of my regular rants is toward people who make the opponents of their opinions and political or religious views out to be evil villains. This is a sign of total ignorance and usually blatant hypocrisy as well. We hear a lot about “tolerance” which has become such a cliché that most of us cannot even tolerate the word, itself, anymore. Tolerance (just so we can start out on the same page) is defined as “a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward opinions and practices that differ from one’s own.” It doesn’t mean agreeing with the opinions of others and it doesn’t mean that you cannot stand in opposition to the differing opinions and agendas of others. But it does mean that you allow and accept the fact that there will be those that disagree with you and they have a right to do so. I often wonder, has the Christian community that firmly believes that homosexuality is a sin, abandoned their principle of “love the sin, hate the sinner?” Or is it just that the homosexual community sees any opposition to their lifestyle (even a loving one) as equivalent to bigotry and hatred? I would say it is absolutely BOTH. The picture attached is a prime example of the ignorance and intolerance I speak of. A homosexual individual, one also claiming Christian faith, places a bumper sticker on his vehicle to express the fact that he abandoned his support of a (soon-to-be) president. Not because that president changed his position on homosexual issues but because he chose to associate with someone who disagrees with his position on homosexual issues, Pastor Rick Warren. Is it an appropriate response by one touting themself as “tolerant” to demonize (literally) what is supposedly his brother in Christ? We, as a people, are just so very wretched, ignorant and pathetic. And we are so blinded by our own views of the world that we cannot even see how pathetic and selfish we really are. We do not see truth and love as it is but rather our own distorted version of truth and love (which always places us at the center of our own universe)….and this coming from my view that love does not necessarily equal acceptance of all things.