For you, Motar and cj44.
Let's hear why you find it so difficult to follow Jesus' teaching of tolerance.
Let's hear why you find it so difficult to follow Jesus' teaching of tolerance.
Yup, my teacher was a Cree medicine man. He included Christian symbols in his ceremonies. I also met a Cree Catholic priest who used sweet grass, sage, cedar and the pipe during mass and went regularly to the sweat lodge.Like why they can't find the Creator/God connection?
They have no Jesuit education. The Cree and Metis could dig the connection and helped spread the discipline it requires far and wide throughout the FNs.
Need some sweet grass to smudge before Mass?
Yup, my teacher was a Cree medicine man. He included Christian symbols in his ceremonies. I also met a Cree Catholic priest who used sweet grass, sage, cedar and the pipe during mass and went regularly to the sweat lodge.
A Cree Jesuit Catholic Priest no doubt. They and all the others still send their kids to the Catholic Schools in good numbers.Yup, my teacher was a Cree medicine man. He included Christian symbols in his ceremonies. I also met a Cree Catholic priest who used sweet grass, sage, cedar and the pipe during mass and went regularly to the sweat lodge.
They were cool because both the priest and the medicine man promoted tolerance of other people and cultures.They were cool then.
They were cool because both the priest and the medicine man promoted tolerance of other people and cultures.
You are entitled to your opinion.I guess you didn't learn much from them... with regards to tolerance etc.
For you, Motar and cj44. Let's hear why you find it so difficult to follow Jesus' teaching of tolerance.
Thanks for the discussion topic, Cliffy. Which Christian teaching of tolerance in particular do you reference?
It is fear that what you were led to believe since childhood is sheer bunkum. And, it is hard to be tribal when members of other tribes move next door, have different beliefs, yet appear vaguely human. As long as there was a technological and a deep cultual divide, superiority came naturally, god given in fact. Today, fear of being misled leads to hunkering down, closing ears, eyes, and minds to the big, wide world. That hunkering down is worshipped as "faith". We recognize the frailities of faith in others, hell we bomb them, but are largely blind to our own.
What's scary about having self-discipline?It is fear that what you were led to believe since childhood is sheer bunkum.
Simply because many of them are, committing terrorist acts in the name of their religion.
trying to change laws and customs in a country through the intimidation of limp wristed politicians who are scared of taking a stand.
Go to one of these other countries, and try to change their laws and mess around with their religious customs.
you will probably end up in jail or executed
Jesus' teaching of tolerance.
Mighty wide brush you are using.
"One of the pet words of this age is tolerance. It is a good word, but we have tried to stretch it over too great an area. We have applied it, too often, where it does not belong. The word tolerant means liberal and broad-minded. In one sense, it implies the compromise of one’s convictions, a yielding of ground upon important issues. We have become tolerant about divorce, the use of alcohol, delinquency, wickedness in high places, immorality, crime and godlessness. We have been sapped of conviction, drained of our beliefs, and we are bereft of our faith.
The sciences, however, are narrow-minded. There is no room for careless broad-mindedness in the laboratory. Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit at sea level; it is never 100 degrees nor 189 degrees, nor 211. Fresh water freezes at 32 degrees; it is never 23 degrees nor 31. Mathematics is also narrow-minded. The sum of two plus two is four, never three-and-a-half. Geometry is narrow-minded. It says that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points on a plane. A compass is narrow-minded; it always points to the magnetic north. If it were broad-minded, ships at sea and planes in the air would be in danger. If you should ask a man the directions to New York City and he said, “Oh, just take any road you wish, they all lead to New York,” you would question both his sanity and his truthfulness. Nevertheless, we have somehow gotten it into our minds that “all roads lead to Heaven.”
But Jesus Christ, who journeyed from Heaven to Earth and back to Heaven again, who knew the way better than anyone who ever lived, said, “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it (Matthew 7:13-14)."
The Sin of Tolerance | Decision Magazine | BGEA
You are entitled to your opinion.