I am becoming more and more disenfranchised with this word called “tolerance.” It seems as if the more I learn, the more I cannot stand the sound of it. Now, this is me we are talking about, perhaps the most sensitive young woman to have ever lived. A story will probably illustrate this well enough:
At The Refuge once there was an offering taken up to go towards a Christian organization whose pursuit was to build an orphanage in a Muslim nation and lead the children to Jesus. I was appalled at this: how dare we share the gospel with children whose parents mean for them to grow in Islam. Was I nuts? No, just incredibly foolish. I once lead someone to Christianity with this very statement, “Christianity is a very tolerant religion, it is just those crazy conservatives that make it not so.” If someone would have given me a crystal ball I would have fallen dead, luckily I don’t believe in those voodoo things. Or luck for that matter.
I was stirred to write because I have been learning. For the first time in my life I have a subtle understanding of what I believe and I’m sorry to say to my liberal friends, I cannot be a liberal. How can I? This weekend was my first session of training with the pregnancy center to help young girls make a decision against abortion if at all possible. As I read the statistics and pamphlets I understand that abortion not only kills a baby, but too, a woman’s soul. Well, of course it does, I was just too busy jumping on band wagons before to really understand. But the word tolerance no doubt paved the way for the legalization of abortion to occur. The anatomy of an abortion is this: it is the least of three evils. When a unplanned pregnancy occurs a woman has three options: 1) Abort, 2) Parent, 3) Adoption. To abort is the death of a baby. To parent or give up adoption is “death of self,” and life as they know it. So abortion is chosen, the least of three evils, so it seems. Statistically if family and/or boyfriend were removed, the woman would almost always choose to have the baby. That seems something like intolerance to me.
There was a time when I said out loud, “the Christian God and Allah are the same,” but that is so far from the truth that almost 8 years later I want to wash my mouth out with soap! It is so ironic to me now that I would lay my own life down to see Islam disappear from the face of the earth. I know it sounds terrible, terribly intolerant. If that’s so, it’s probably ironic that it is the intolerance of this religion of hate that I so desire to see justice overtake. This is actually the root of my rant. I just watched Glenn Beck. In the wake of the Japan earthquake, a certain story is not making headlines, although it should. Muslim terrorists killed an Israeli family. Snuck into the family’s house, and murdered the parents and the children. When it made headlines in Palestine, a celebration took place and candy was handed out on the streets in celebration of a 6 year old, 3 year old, and 3 month infant being murdered. That seems like intolerance to me, and for the banner of tolerance we turn our heads. Paul was explaining to me the situation in Israel, why I should care. For one, it is the homeland of the Jews, given to them following years under the Nazi regime. Speaking of the Nazi regime, that was a time in history that was headed up by intolerance as well. Anyway, I really just wanted to mention that because the Nazi regime years earlier started this all.
I guess my point is that lots of pointing gets done towards the right: “you intolerant party.” This is why knowledge is power. I just learned in my training and Paul confirmed it several times through some of his history books. Birth control and Planned Parenthood were started by Margaret Sanger, who developed it alongside the Nazis in an attempt to rid the world of “the blacks,” as well as what she considered “moronic people.” She got her wish because statistically, African-Americans receive more abortions a year than any other race. That is intolerance!
It’s really sad that I do not want women to have rights to their own body so that in the face of intolerance, she will kill her unborn baby. It’s really sad that I don’t want same sex marriage legalized because I believe that there is life-changing, mind-transforming power in the blood of the lamb. I guess that makes me a heartless bigot although I can absolutely swear to you that my heart is that everyone know absolute joy and God’s grace. In the face of terrorism, abortion, socialism, and a society so obsessed with money that they barely notice any other indiscretion, I am the intolerant one.
I hate apologizing for myself, but I feel like doing it again because I do not want to hurt people. I love people. But, I believe that the word tolerance is ruining our country. It is taking down our faith slowly, and thanks to Margaret Sanger’s efforts and thousands of Christians sucking down birth control, she is going to succeed. If nothing changes in 100 years we are going to be lost, broken, empty people wandering and wondering where we went wrong, and I know it will begin with that word tolerance that we bought without even asking the cost.
I recognize also that we are all capable of unspeakable evil. I just cannot seem to get the Israeli family out of my head, it is heartbreaking. I also realize that we are an intolerant relgion: "Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life." But to be tolerant in all seasons, in all ways is not love. It is not acceptance. In every way possible I can think of it is cheating people of true joy.
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