“Why is it religious tolerance for others, but you seemingly have difficulty practicing it yourself?”
the pot calling the kettle black!
(btw...here's my "nine cents" (inflation) re: the subject of "tolerance")
Here's the reality:
Everybody is tolerant and everybody is intolerant of something. Everybody draws the line somewhere on what they won't oppose. But opposition in and of itself does not = "intolerance" or "hate" (I get the feeling some people grew up in homes of conflict and project any disagreement as hate-filled)
Some posters speaking my way thru the years are intolerant of certain religious views (like mine) because they've decided to draw the line at some point. It shows they were intolerant of some things. I say, "Well, good for you. Everybody's intolerant of some things. And some people are tolerant of false teachers, deception, and counterfeiters." (That's just the way things run)
Bottom line, "tolerance" is not touted as any great virtue in the Bible. Why? Because it's so dependent upon what is being discussed! It actually falls more into the licentious camp.
Although patience IS a virtue -- as well as a certain level of civility, respect and giving honor; not all lifestyles and worldviews are to be respected -- and thus, Biblically speaking, tolerance is NOT usually presented as a virtue.
So usually when I discuss "tolerance" -- it's only after somebody else has made some appeal to it on the thread. IoW, they appeal to it as their basic operative ethic.
I don't go around on these threads asking for "tolerance" -- unless & until -- I encounter a poster who appeals to it as one of their key ethics.
And the reason I do that is that IF tolerance is so high in their field of vision, then they should already be practicing it toward religious views they disagree with...like mine.
Otherwise, what it amounts to is: 'TOLERANCE FOR ME; BUT NOT FOR THEE' (Or to put it another way: "I have a license to be intolerant toward your religious convictions and expressions -- all as I chew you out for exercising your right to express your own religious convictions!" Sorry, but that attitude is both self-refuting as well as hypocritical)
And what are common in these expressions I post? Simply that we don't cuddle up to religious falsehoods, deceptions, and other aspects that the Bible warns us not to "tolerate" as counterfeit Christianity.
So anybody who wishes to be intolerant toward my religious convictions & expressions, fine. 'Tis OK with me. (Please just don't -- in almost the same breath -- be appealing to religious tolerance if you can't practice it!)
I don’t think so...
“The anti Mormons [sic] here have blood on their hands....... they are the scum left from the Mormon killers of old.”