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Originally posted by Neb:
Hmmmmm..... This Jesus fellow which you Christians like so much, did he not preach tolerance? Gee, I'm certainly seeing a LOT of that in these recent few posts.
First of all LS probably meant it as a joke, second, lighten up everyone, jeez, you're all so dark and gloomy, take life lightly.
Tolerance is one thing but allowing others to denigrate your beliefs and imply that their most sacred writings are a bad fiction is not one of the things he was tlaking about...in saying Jesus taught tolerance shows a certain level of ignorance of what he was talking about..His teaching of tolerance did not imply that you sit back and tolerate an injustice, or an evil or even a blasphemer...actually there were certain specific and ....painful punishments for that one particular "sin". You are supposed to show the sinner tolerance if he is showing signs of repentance...but if he is going to smite you on the head with a cudjel you are in no way taught to tolerate his poor manners.