https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2013/05/intolerent-tolerence/ Bleak Theology: Hopeful Science Thu, 04 May 2017 21:42:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2013/05/intolerent-tolerence/comment-page-1/#comment-2329 Mon, 27 May 2013 21:48:28 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=2173#comment-2329 He’d destroy the shop at most mega churches.

]]> https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2013/05/intolerent-tolerence/comment-page-1/#comment-2328 Mon, 27 May 2013 20:49:20 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=2173#comment-2328 There is a very fine, nebulous line between self-righteousness-against-self-rightesouness, and the strong emotional responses that one may have when one comes up against the pompous asshole attitudes of the self-righteous and self-inflated superiority of masters of whatever belief systems they be. I agree that one has to constantly re-examine ones motivations and attitudes behind one’s own attitudes, but that only brings us back to the thin fine nebulous line. One of my favourite visual images about Jesus is His anger at the temple gates. If He did that at our churches these days, nobody would recognise him! They may mistake Him as either a terrorist or a hateful atheist. Such is the state of our self-righteousness in our modern constructs.

]]> https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2013/05/intolerent-tolerence/comment-page-1/#comment-2327 Mon, 27 May 2013 20:08:47 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=2173#comment-2327 Yep. We reject correction.

]]> https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/2013/05/intolerent-tolerence/comment-page-1/#comment-2325 Mon, 27 May 2013 19:49:59 +0000 https://pukeko.net.nz/blog/?p=2173#comment-2325 To follow on from your last paragraph, we have become such horrible beings because we do not understand that hurt can be helpful, when it teaches us to keep away from harm.

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