To tolerate, or to accept?
Toleration seems to have a bad rap in society. It seems as though accepting all religions and beliefs should be the answer.
But if you accept a belief, it means it could happen to you. You believe in it.
Doesn't that undermine your whole belief system? To be able to think that both are correct?
Do people choose to be gay, or are they ["decidedly" gay people] born that way?
Do you pick a religion to believe in, or is that religion the only true one?
Do you believe your religion is the only one possible? At least then, you know.
Or do you believe all other religions are possible? If that's true, how can you live day-by-day and still believe in yours?
One can't go to a hell if they don't believe in a hell. How can a faith exist and apply to me without my belief in it? I would have to believe in it, and defy it. However, that is a personal belief I have. I do not embrace other views on this topic, because I know where I stand.
Many people can tell me that a hell exists, but why would it? Why would one religion's hell exist when so many others have been introduced into the pool of infinite beliefs?
Is it your moral duty to warn somebody of a hell they don't believe in? Can they even possibly go there?
Toleration seems to have a bad rap in society. It seems as though accepting all religions and beliefs should be the answer.
But if you accept a belief, it means it could happen to you. You believe in it.
Doesn't that undermine your whole belief system? To be able to think that both are correct?
Do people choose to be gay, or are they ["decidedly" gay people] born that way?
Do you pick a religion to believe in, or is that religion the only true one?
Do you believe your religion is the only one possible? At least then, you know.
Or do you believe all other religions are possible? If that's true, how can you live day-by-day and still believe in yours?
One can't go to a hell if they don't believe in a hell. How can a faith exist and apply to me without my belief in it? I would have to believe in it, and defy it. However, that is a personal belief I have. I do not embrace other views on this topic, because I know where I stand.
Many people can tell me that a hell exists, but why would it? Why would one religion's hell exist when so many others have been introduced into the pool of infinite beliefs?
Is it your moral duty to warn somebody of a hell they don't believe in? Can they even possibly go there?
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