+1
This is a big part of what is crazy right now. Transgenders are a case in point. I don't especially care about them. A guy wants to wear a dress and live as a woman? Fine. He wants surgery? Why is that my business? I don't chase that person. I don't yell at them. I don't hassle them. I just don't care. Go and live your life, it's just none of my business. But that's not good enough for them. They are in my face. Yelling at me. Demanding that I change my ways. I must use their new name. I must use their new pronouns. I must support drag shows for kids. I must do 1000 and 1 things, and it's never enough.
Someone is being an intolerant bully and it doesn't seem like it's me. Seems like they are demanding that I live according to their very strict and oppressive rules. And if I want to make my own decisions about how I live, well, that makes me a Nazi. Or something.
Your rational posting draws the line at just the right place. It was an absolute pleasure to read.
It’s not going to be enough to just “tolerate” the worldly and leave them to their sin, because they can’t tolerate you in return. Anyone they see trying to live a godly life is just a constant reminder to them that they are damned. They have a vain hope that if all the godly people just “went away”, or were dragged into sin along with them, then their conscience would cease to bother them. It won’t work, but they have to believe it will, because they are desperate to avoid admitting that what torments them is inside of them, and not being imposed on them by others.