Note: Before reading the following arguments, please understand that they are not what I believe. On Wednesdays, I deliberately argue for wrong ideas, challenging my listeners to call and defend the obvious right answer, which is usually far harder than one would expect. This is a summary of what Wacky Andrew will be arguing, not a representation of what real Andrew believes.~It’s mean.
~Who are you to tell other people how they should live their lives?
~God gave them freedom, who are you to take it away?
~Do you want to be known as intolerant?
~In a liberal democratic society like the United States, tolerance is a key public virtue, perhaps THE civic virtue.
~Other words for intolerance are oppression and persecution.
~Intolerance is the source of much violence and warfare.
~Famous examples of intolerance include The Spanish Inquisition, Nazis, Communists, Genocide, and Racism.
~When you try to stop something yourself, you just presume to take God’s role in controlling the world.
~Jesus didn’t set up a political kingdom full of intolerant rules.
~Christians claim to embody love, but love and intolerance aren’t exactly synonyms.
~Pushing to legislate your peculiar religious morality is not the sort of thing Jesus did.
~All Christians are sinners, so why are we so harsh toward…sinners?
~Intolerance breeds hatred, and hatred is responsible for much of the evil in this world.
~Externals are not the proof of righteousness, and even if we are effective at stopping the external, we haven’t solved the problem.
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