Date:   9/1/2003 2:54:26 PM ( 21 y ago)
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not only christians...I understand intolerance...I am intolerant myself about many things..like layers of an onion I peel away one one more layer of my intolerance as I get older. I think intolerance is fear driven attitude. When I was young, I feared the communists...I believed communists were evil. I couldn't understand how anyone could accept a doctrine that denied even the existence of God. One day I realized that communists were just people and although they did not believe in my God, I began to understand that communists wanted many of the same things I wanted...love...peace...a family..a home... and when I understood that communists wanted more or less things of life that I wanted....I found we had something in common...and I no longer feared communists....I didn't become a communist but I allowed myself to embrace our common humanity. I remember when I was a teen, I thought gays were evil abomination. I feared gays....but as I examined my beliefs... I once believed that God sent a curse of AIDS on homosexuals to destroy their evil. Then a friend of mine died who had AIDS. I changed my mind about gays. My gay friend was a human being...His family didn't even visit him in the hospital...I did...and a few weeks later he died...His family did not even attend his funeral. As I came to realize our common humanity...I no longer feard gays... I have gone through a hundred layers of removing my fears... I don't fear intolerant Christians...I am way beyond that...I have moved on to even understanding intolerant Muslims...and Jews...and Hindu... and even republicans... but as they circle me and as they move closer to me...will I lash out in fear? when I do...I am lashing out at my myself.....because we all share our humanity....

As a Christian should I stand against intolerant Christians...? How can I stand against Christians...at some layer in my being, I am one...
 

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