:~( Have you ever noticed that when a person honestly tells the truth, they are usually accused of or an insinuation is made that they are unloving and intolerant?
Well I have noticed it. It makes me mad and sad at the same time. Truth is at odds to Lies- period. Truth is not at odds with real love. And alas it is usually at odds with tolerance.
Did you know that the word tolerance means to 'Put Up With"? It does as in the body becoming used to a drug or to allow something not accepted as in one's belief system.
Well I don't know about ya'll but I am intolerant of a lot of things. I do not tolerate lies. I do not tolerate pretense. And I do not tolerate 2 faces- i.e. hypocracy.
But you know what- the enemy of our souls is a sly demon- he makes folks think that being intolerant of things as they are or hypocracy is unloving... this is not so. The truth is not tolerant either. The real truth is tempered in love but it is not tolerant of injust or unrighteousness.
To call something truth does not make it so. Only God decides what is true. Not men and not demons and certainly not any religious system- only God decides what is truth.
ysiC, Pepper singin'~ I Will Now Get Down Off My Soap Box...