Common Sense Commentary: Our son, Ron, sent me the following comment expressing his rejection of an over- worked word used so often by government, schools, churches and liberals applied to every kind of personality flaw, and character perversion, you can name..... "tolerance"....... Ron Said:
At this point in my life I've decided that my least favorite word in the English language is not 4 letters but 9 letters long. That word is "tolerance". I'm extremely tired of hearing it. My definition of tolerance is: Compromise that becomes apathy that leads to capture that spells doom and sinks principle. I suspect that compromise is one of Satan's favorite words. God save us from "tolerance". It doesn't mean, "patience".
Thank you Son for the pride you give your old Dad and for the inspiration of this blog. Here is your "least favorite" word and seven more of mine which are misused and abused until ... now, perverted.
I. Tolerance - (Does not mean Patience) "Tribulation works patience..." not Tolerance of evil or bad behaviour. The list of transgressions and perversions we are expected to be tolerant of grows longer as new ones are discovered, pronounced "Common to all" or, "Everybody does it" or, "Its only human" or, "Don't be such a legalist" or, "Except for the grace of God there go I". Yes, we are all sinners but when you are really saved, its time to get over your fear of being thought to be "Self righteous". Call sin and perversion and bad behavior by its name and avoid its corrupting influence. Tolerance has grown into compromise of truth and compromise has grown into indifference and "tolerance" of every kind of wickedness.
II. Hate Crimes - Someone explain to me why an attack or murder of a homosexual or minority person is a "Hate Crime" and somehow worse than a similar crime committed by a heartless husband and father who murders his whole family or a crime of passion like rape that ends in the murder of the victim or a "random" murder for the fun of it. It is a stupid, ridiculous law that elevates a so called "hate crime" murder over another cold blooded, senseless killing of innocence. If there is a worse murder... it is abortion ... the intentional "murder" of absolute INNOCENCE. Unlike "Civil Execution" of a murderer which is Killing the GUILTY not the innocent. Another ridiculous position to take.
III. Entitlements- A government check paid to an elderly citizen, who has paid required monthly payments into Social Security, like insurance premiums, but required by law or punishment for fifty years, is truly an "Entitlement"; or paid to a disabled veteran who was disabled in battle defending his country and being paid a pittance for it, deserves that check and is "Entitled" to it. But when the word is applied to someone, anyone who did not pay such a price for it, that U.S. Treasury check, is NOT an "Entitlement". It is "W E L F A R E" and that person is no more "Entitled" to it than any other Tax-paying "CITIZEN" in this country. Again, Call it what it is... free money extracted from the U.S. TAX-PAYERS willingly (a gift) or unwillingly (a theft). Entitlement means the person has done something worthy and deserves, is entitled to the award.
IV. Politically Correct - Hey, it is hard enough to live up to all the requirements of Holy Scripture and reasonable Civil Laws, a thousand unreasonable ones and even a lot of Social Expectations .... without piling on yet another layer of hundreds of tiny behavioral requirements smugly named, "Political Correctness". Free Speech takes another hateful attack. With it, we are whipped into line with a Pirate's cat of 900 tails called Political Correctness. I won't say more lest I violate a dozen or so of those new crimes against some body's sensitive little feelings. No, I changed my mind ... The Politically Correct Police can go to ..... infinity ... and beyond. Where is that? Its pretty far away.
V. Dysfunctional - I have heard this word used something less than a thousand times applied to the wrong people. Often against some of the best, most "balanced" parents I know ... often by their own child, who is the dysfunctional one. This accusative, insulting word is, in today's language, the word of preference to describe another person or family that isn't just exactly what the accuser thinks the accused should do or be. When that happens, it is the addicted user of the word who appears dysfunctional. It is often used to give the appearance of a "professional" or deeply perceptive pronouncement. Most often it is a simple case of violation of , "Judge not lest ye be judged".
VI. Diplomacy - We have enough "diplomacy" to last for eternity. I prefer the raw truth, it is what it is, straight-forward honesty. Just give me the facts as they are. I can deal with the reality of a matter, however unpleasant ...., but I can't make critical decisions based on "do gooder" diplomacy, exaggerations or lies which flow out of Washington and Wall Street in a flood of sweet, "don't worry be happy" words. Stop lying and calling it diplomacy or "for their own good".
VII. Equal - The idea that "all people are created equal" is true in only one sense. We are all equally human, equally loved of God before we were ever born. "For God so loved the WORLD that he gave his only begotten Son that WHOSOEVER believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Jn.3:16. The word "world" here is referring to the "whosoever" following it. That is the only way the 7 billion people on this earth are equal. They are not even "equal" under the law. Each nation has different laws usually for different people, different judges and juries and different circumstances. Each individual on earth is different from all the rest in a thousand ways. Even so-called "identical twins" are not identical. Each of us is "individual" and uniquely different from every other human being. Even, "under God" we are different. Some people believe in Him and love Him. Others disbelieve in Him but still hate him. Strange. If God loved us equally at birth, I cannot believe He loves us equally after death when unbelievers are cast into outer darkness, and eternally separated from God in hell while believers hear Him say, "Well done thou good and faithful servant". Mt.25:21. Even each snowflake is uniquely different from all others ... but they are all snowflakes.
VIII. Rights - Everybody and his alligator has his "rights" in this country. There are gay rights, animal rights, criminal rights, women's rights ... and men's .... no, I forgot, men don't have that kind of stuff. Practically every drunk and criminal the police arrest says, "I HAVE MY RIGHTS". I've heard employees, around the water fountain ...."We have our rights". People scream at each other, "I HAVE MY RIGHTS YOU KNOW". Neither God's Law, man's law nor the Constitution grants most of these claims. The only "rights" we have here or in eternity are those granted in God's Word.
Pass it on. RB
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