Introduction:

Tolerance is the buzz word ricocheting around politically correct circles over the past few years.  What that really means is that all political, philosophical and theologically correct viewpoints must be tolerated, and any other viewpoints must be mercilessly squelched.  The bottom line of this whole rhetoric is that the Christian viewpoint is hateful and must be silenced.

Throughout the country and throughout the world a new world religion is being drummed into our thoughts by countless organizations yelling that hate and intolerance originate with Christianity and that there has to be a better way to promote love, peace, and environmentalism.  That way boils down to global pantheism, where god is in everything, especially nature, and everything is god.

The only people who can't join the converging streams toward universal oneness are devout monotheists, such as Jews, Christians and Muslims, who base their faith on the Bible or the Koran.  Their religions preach one God, one sacred Book, and one door to eternal life.  They can accept no other and must refuse to model their beliefs to fit an all-inclusive global spirituality.  As such, groups refusing to go along with the new global ethic of universal "tolerance" will not be tolerated in the name of tolerance.  This means that Biblical Christians are on a collision course with the new paradigms of thought that are emerging and taking root in all out public institutions.

Taking the tolerance ethic further, we now have a move toward the codification of thought in "hate crimes."  Traditional values that clash with the new global standards for tolerance have become tantamount to hate, and Christians who cling to Biblical boundaries are labeled both intolerant and hateful - no matter how kind their actions.  Today's social leaders have redefined hate, identified a new group of haters, and are gathering public support for monitoring and punishing the guilty.

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