In
today's secular world, tolerance has come to mean condoning or accepting
wrongful behaviour as the price of friendship. Today's politically correct
definition insists that unless one accepts the sin then he does not tolerate
the sinner. But is not so. Speaking out against things that are wrong does not
constitute “hate speech”.
Jesus
taught that we must love and care for one another without condoning
transgression. A woman that had been condemned to death by stoning for the
crime of adultery was dragged before Jesus. He saved her from the death penalty
and treated her with great kindness and compassion. But he also spoke to her
very directly and firmly instructed her to “go and sin no more”.
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