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When Tolerance Is Intolerant

By: |19 November, 2008|Categories: Practical Engagement . Websites|Tags: . .

Greg Koukl is one of the great Christian Apologists of our age. Perhaps he is not the scholar of Alvin Plantinga or Bill Craig, but he is a great thinker and and articulate proponent of Thinking Christianity.

Greg has a weekly radio show (that you can get on Podcast) where he defends and carefully explains what Christians believe and why, as well as having open phone lines for callers.

Greg also has numerous videos on his YouTube channel and a great video presentation on www.Veritas.org that you can watch here (7527 page views to date). (We used this video and notes I wrote out at an apologetics meeting a year or so back.)

I think Greg has been to New Zealand (certainly Australia).

Anyway, here is an article forwarded by a friend, written by Greg Koukl, on “When Tolerance is Intolerant”.

http://www.str.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=6742

Enjoy!

  • http://mcewing.stuart.googlepages.com Stuart

    Hi there,

    I think Its a pity that huge conversation on email toady was not conducted here, on the thinkingmatters web site. Next time we should make a space somewhere on here. What do you think?

  • http://www.thewhyman.jesusanswers.com The Whyman

    A conversation with an “open minded” and “tolerent” person could go something like this:

    C= Christian
    R= Relativist

    C: “Homosexuality is a sin / we all have sinned and falled short of the glory of God / Jesus said in John 14:6 that He is the only way to salvation (fill in the blank)”

    R: “You shouldn’t push your morality on me”

    C: “Are you saying I have no right to an opinion?”

    R: “You have a right, but don’t force it on anyone”

    C: “Is that your opinion?”

    R: “Yes”

    C: “Then why are you forcing it on me?”

    R: “Because you are saying that only your view is right”

    C: “Am I wrong?”

    R: “Yes”

    C: “Is that your view?”

    R: “Yes”

    C: “Then you are saying only your moral world-view is right which is the very thing you objected to me saying!”

    It should be transparent that logic..indeed reality itself dictates that there are absolute ordered laws to existance which gives credulance to the reality of God.

    I made up a ‘teaser’ tract on tolerence a number of months ago. I’ll e-mail it to you.