Word of the Day: Tolerance

Hey boys and girls! Today's magic word is "TOLERANCE". Can you say TOL-ER-ANCE? TOLERANCE.

Good job. Do you know what tolerance means? Well, I can tell you about some people who certainly don't! All the people at www.godhatesfags.com wouldn't know tolerance if it came right up to them and permitted their continued existence....Seriously, this website seems like a bad (if inappropriate) joke at first, but then you realize that these people are actually serious. There is a church...a Christian church...that not only refuses to tolerate homosexuality, but openly condemns homosexuals as a social group. These people have chosen to focus so intently on God's obvious disdain toward homosexual acts in the Bible, that they completely miss that whole new-fangled "New Testament" with this guy named "Jesus" who talked about "loving thy neighbor as thyself" and all this other stuff. Westboro Baptist Church, thank you for instilling in me a renewed sense of guilt about my fellow believers. Thank you for reminding me that, yes, Christians can often be one of the most intolerant groups of people in society. And let me tell you, that whole intolerance thing just really reflects nicely upon the God we serve and the message of the Gospel.

I would like to modify a famous MLK Jr. quotation. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Here's my version. "Fundamentalism anywhere is a fundamental threat everywhere." Seriously, I don't care who you are or what religious group with whom you are affiliated. Fundamentalism is incorrect. It ought to be morally and factually indefensible, but somehow it continues to remain a topic of debate. Oh, and another really really "fun" website is www.christiananswers.net

This website actually makes assertions such as:
1) Dinosaurs lived with Adam and Eve.
2) Dinosaurs were on Noah's ark.
3) Sedimentary rock can form in a matter of months or a few years.

Ugh, that's all for now.