Toleration is the enemy, Moderation is our friend

In my view toleration is the most unchristian ideology at work in the minds and hearts of men. The more I learn about God, the more I realize that He calls us to something resembling moderation not toleration. Moderation accepts no sin, accepts no evil. Toleration, on the other hand permits it.

Moderation: temperance, restraint; the quality of being moderate.
Moderate: not extreme or excessive, balanced; not violent; become less severe, to act as a moderator
Toleration: forbearance, allowing, enduring, or accepting what is not actually approved, act or instance of tolerating
Tolerate: to allow the existence, presence, practice or act of without prohibition or hindrance, permit

If God does not allow toleration of sin personally, how can He allow toleration of sin corporately in His body? Even our society of toleration does not intellectually tolerate Christianity. To be moderate does not mean equivocating. We do not accept sin, but neither do we walk around casting stones either. God wants us to be "moderators" on earth.

Intolerance is an inescapable concept. It is not really a question of tolerance or intolerance. The real antithesis is between those who would tolerate God and those who will not tolerate God. As Christians we need to come to grips with this reality and instead of accepting the false gospel of toleration we should repudiate it. But in our repudiation we need to be moderate.

Balance is the key.

What is more important, the individual or society? If you answer one or the other and take it to its logical conclusion, you will end up in one of two extremist camps: individualism or socialism. As a Christian theist I see a synthesis between the one (individual) and the many (society) based upon the concept of trinity. Neither is more important. They are both (or all) equally important. Both need to be dealt with as such. Laws passed to protect a society need to examine whether it is unduly encroaching upon individual rights. A society that protects individual rights needs to ensure that it does not do so to the detriment of society. The answer as originating from scripture is a multi-perspective view rather than a narrow one. The secular variant we might call the gospel of moderation. Again when I speak of moderation I come from the scriptural viewpoint, and yet it is very acceptable to a secularist when toleration is seen as a misplaced antithesis.

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