Tolerance
Tolerance is not acceptance.
Sums it up for me!
Authored by Chris Hall
Sums it up for me!
Authored by Chris Hall
Newlands Corner to St Martha's Church
A beautiful walk with Carol today. Found a walk on AllTrails going from Newlands Corner to St Martha’s Church. St Martha’s Church is also known as St Martha’s church-on-the-hill. And it really does sit on a hill, no access roads just trails through the woods up to where the church sits. It has Holy Communion or Matins every other week and the graveyard is still in use with evidence of a fresh internment. Our first visit to Newlands Corner and we were blown away by the views. It was a beautiful day, not too hot, with a little breeze. When you get to a place like this you realise just how beautiful England, and the United Kingdom can be, and how privileged we are to live here. View from the car park Down the initial slope and away across the fields. Through some pretty narrow footpaths. After what seemed a long climb through woods with a lot of sandy soil this was the fantastic view of the church. In some ways it’s beautiful yet in other ways it’s somewhat sad and melancholic, thinking a...
Tolerance is always in order when it means that we coexist peacefully with people whose ideas and manners differ from our own, even when to do so is to risk the impression that truth is relative and all customs and mores are equally acceptable (as happens in North America).
ReplyDeleteTolerance is never in order when it means that we remain idle before wickedness which harms human beings and destroys God's creation.
To be tolerant is to be neither indifferent nor relativistic. Neither is it to sanction injustice or to be permissive of evil. Injustice is intolerable and evil has no rights. But the only weapons which Christians may use against injustice and evil are personal persuasion and political legislation, both of which are to be enacted in an atmosphere of respect. While Christians are permitted under certain conditions to participate in police and military actions to enforce civil laws and to oppose criminality, we may not obey evil laws nor resort to evil actions in defence of the good. This means that Christians are inevitably called to suffer in this age, and perhaps even to die. This is our gospel, our witness and our defence (Fr Thomas Hopko, Dean of St Vladimir's Seminary)
Good quote from Fr Thomas Hopko Steve.
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