{"id":2282207,"date":"2024-06-23T14:04:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T18:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-intolerant-tolerance-is-hells-mockery-of-mercy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-23T14:14:02","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T18:14:02","slug":"how-intolerant-tolerance-is-hells-mockery-of-mercy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-intolerant-tolerance-is-hells-mockery-of-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"How Intolerant \u2018Tolerance\u2019 Is Hell\u2019s Mockery of Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhow-intolerant-tolerance-is-hells-mockery-of-mercy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2282207&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/crisis-declared-in-california-as-state-farm-announces-72000-policies-to-be-cut\/\" title=\"California in Crisis as State Farm Plans to Terminate 72,000 Policies\">text discusses<\/a> the contrasting perspectives\u2063 of hell and divine principles on concepts such as equality and\u2064 tolerance. It\u2063 argues that while \u200dGod can create, hell can only pervert and distort what has already been created. Specifically, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-martyring-of-hunter-biden-is-a-distraction\/\" title=\"The Victimizing of Hunter Biden Distracts\">text criticizes<\/a> modern \u2062leftist views on equality, suggesting \u2064that these views eliminate distinctions \u200cessential for recognizing individual dignity, creating a false \u200csense of equality that is\u200b merely a distorted mimicry of true heavenly equality.<\/p>\n<p>On the concept of tolerance, the author suggests that it is not \u2064a true Christian \u2064virtue but rather a secular approximation of mercy. The text argues that tolerance, as promoted by leftist ideology, in fact distorts \u2062and weakens the concept of mercy. It points\u2062 out how tolerance in this\u200b distorted form \u200ccan lead to ignoring or accepting\u200d what should be \u2064recognized as evil or sinful, potentially damaging societal moral standards.<\/p>\n<p>True \u200bChristian mercy involves recognition of wrongdoing but forgiving it out of love, which must be \u200dguided by justice, another pivotal virtue intertwined with mercy. The text criticizes the secular approach to tolerance for failing to hold evil accountable, thus misunderstanding and misapplying the virtue of mercy.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the text associates the misapplication of tolerance with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-responds-to-question-about-support-for-caitlyn-jenner-transgender-beauty-pageant-contestant\/\" title=\"Trump comments on support for Caitlyn Jenner, transgender beauty pageant contestant.\">broader \u200csocietal<\/a> and cultural issues, including the handling of contentious\u200c topics such as abortion and transgender\u200b rights. The author underscores the view that modern claims of tolerance often \u2064lead to injustice and a \u2062failure in charity, which should \u200cbe driven by true love and a correct understanding of mercy and\u200b justice.<\/p>\n<p>the discourse \u200cis a critique of how contemporary political and \u200csocial\u2063 movements \u2014 labeled as\u2063 leftist \u2014\u2063 often distort religious and virtuous concepts such as mercy,\u200b justice, and\u200d charity, under the guise\u200b of\u2064 tolerance, leading to moral and ethical decay according to the author&#8217;s perspective.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<header> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/commentary\/\">  Commentary <\/a>   <span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<p> <span>   By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/%20\"><span>S.A. McCarthy, The Washington Stand<\/span><\/a> <\/span> <span>   June 23, 2024 at 10:00am <\/span> <\/span>  <\/header>\n<section>\n<p>Hell cannot create anything. As much as we may speak of certain things or actions or ideas coming straight from Hell, what Hell actually inflicts upon the world is mere perversion. God alone can create, leaving Satan and his legions only the diabolical art of taking created goods and twisting them, distorting them, inverting them, mutilating them, and turning them inside out, so that the created good is almost impossible to recognize \u2014 almost absent, one might say.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/equality-miserific-vision-leftism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent article<\/a>, we examined how Hell has operated this principle upon \u201cequality.\u201d While the Christian principle of equality sanctifies distinctions and differences \u2014 between male and female, for example, or between one nation\u2019s culture and another\u2019s \u2014 so that all souls might be equal in loving God, the leftist view of \u201cequality\u201d eradicates distinctions and differences, thus destroying the dignity embodied therein, in order to achieve its own miserable imitation or depraved mockery of heavenly equality. This devilish operation is also performed on \u2014 or perhaps through \u2014 another of the chief tenets of leftism: tolerance.<\/p>\n<p>Tolerance is not a Christian virtue; it is rather an earthly shadow or purely social mirroring of the fuller virtue of mercy. As is made abundantly, almost appallingly evident in the form of Christ crucified \u2014 that bloodied and mangled God-man hanging upon a broken tree \u2014 mercy is forgiveness of some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/gabby-petitos-mother-shocks-packed-auditorium-forgiving-brian-laundrie-turning-evil-mom-roberta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evil<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was, after all, sin which so brutalized Christ, but it was love \u2014 not merely nails \u2014 which pinioned Him to the cross. Mercy is the handmaiden of that other and greater virtue, charity, but mercy\u2019s twin is charity\u2019s manservant, justice. Mercy and justice balance one another out in the service of charity, with those twin virtues finding their fulfillment and completion in charity.<\/p>\n<p>Justice without mercy to encourage it towards charity would be no virtue at all; it would, at best, be cold legalism and, at its worst, approach cruelty. Just so, mercy without justice to guide it towards charity becomes simply indulgence, indifference, and even \u201ctolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Christ, in His mercy, forgave mankind its sins and evils with His arms outstretched upon the cross, justice demanded that those sins be called evils; if Christ\u2019s mercy were simply forgiving sin by calling it some other name, by declaring that sin was no longer evil, His sacrifice would have been an act of mere and almost superfluous indulgence; it is the twin virtues of both mercy and justice, working hand in hand, which were operative in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pga-tour-golfer-incredible-win-jesus-christ-changed-life-today-wont\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">crucified Christ<\/a>, who is Himself the zenith and indeed source of all virtue.<\/p>\n<p>It is this truth, preserved throughout the centuries by Christianity, that leftism so viciously assaults with its proclamation of \u201ctolerance.\u201d Mercy is twisted and warped so that all manner of sin and degeneracy demands to be tolerated \u2014 not as a man may tolerate a few lumps or a twisted branch in his back beneath his sleeping-bag on a camping trip, but rather as a man may simply \u201ctolerate\u201d a malignant cancer growing in his organs, when the tumor could easily be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the leftist ideal of \u201ctolerance\u201d insists that the cancer also must be \u201ctolerated,\u201d though it will inevitably kill its host.<\/p>\n<p>This degradation of the virtue of mercy naturally and even necessarily impacts the leftist\u2019s perception of both justice and charity. The Catholic archbishop emeritus of Philadelphia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/7456006-evil-preaches-tolerance-until-it-is-dominant-then-it-tries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Charles J. Chaput<\/a> once declared, \u201cEvil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.\u201d This is where \u201ctolerance\u201d moves beyond brutalizing just mercy and proceeds to mangle its twin, justice.<\/p>\n<p>For while mercy may call a thing an evil but choose, in obedience to love, to forgive it, justice demands, also in obedience to love, that that thing still be called an evil. \u201cTolerance\u201d reverses this process: that which is evil is, in a Satanic mockery of mercy, called a good, while justice is turned on its head, so that the only thing not tolerated by \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/op-ed-bible-doesnt-teach-tolerance-teaches-love-means-speaking-hard-truths\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tolerance<\/a>\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-criminal-justice-system-reform-law-criticized-by-police\/\" title=\"Illinois Criminal Justice System Reform Law Criticized By Police\">true justice<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Christ hung on the cross, weighted down with all the sins of the world, He cried out, \u201cFather, forgive them, for they know not what they do\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Luke+23%3A34&#038;version=ESV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke 23:34<\/a>). Though crushed beneath the weight of untold hundreds of millions of sins, beaten and broken, bloodied and bruised for the sake of forgiveness, Christ still declared sins to be sin; His mercy demanded His suffering, His justice demanded His clarity.<\/p>\n<p>Leftism carves these dual virtues open and turns them inside out. The diabolical parody \u201ctolerance\u201d eliminates real mercy: for if there is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-scott-we-need-opportunity-society-not-woke-supremacists\/\" title=\"Sen. Scott: We need opportunity society, not woke supremacists\">real justice<\/a> to declare something an evil, how can that evil be forgiven? Instead, the inverted justice \u2014 the injustice, as we might call it \u2014 turns its cold, stern countenance away from charity. It turns its wrath upon those who are, truly, just.<\/p>\n<p>The 21st century, and the past decades or so of it in particular, is rife with examples of this malicious maxim. Those who dare to speak the truth that abortion is the slaughter of unborn innocents are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/judge-sentences-75-year-old-woman-praying-abortion-clinic-taunts-horrified-husband-christian-faith-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">jailed<\/a>, any who have the gall to call cheating \u201ccheating\u201d are targeted, those with the temerity to call a sin a sin are persecuted, all in the name of \u201ctolerance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the cancer is no longer called \u201ca cancer\u201d but simply a part of who someone is, then would not a surgeon be mad for saying the cancer must be removed? In the leftist\u2019s \u201ctolerant\u201d view, this would be tantamount to calling for an arm or a leg to be cut off.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, in a sort of horrific irony, that same \u201ctolerance\u201d which forbids the metaphorical surgeon of the soul from calling the cancer of sin a \u201ccancer\u201d and urging that it be removed also commands that healthy breasts and penises are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/american-college-pediatricians-calls-immediate-halt-transgender-procedures-children-consent-not-possible\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chopped off<\/a> from little girls and little boys. Any efforts to prevent or curtail this blatant butchery and abuse are deemed by \u201ctolerance\u201d to be bigoted, hateful \u2014 in fact, intolerant.<\/p>\n<p>This is because, after Hell subdues and lobotomizes both mercy and justice, the demons turn their prowling, hungry eyes to charity. Is it any wonder that LGBT activists take as their mantra the phrase \u201clove is love\u201d? Is it any wonder that those would-be surgeons of the soul who have the wisdom and the courage to call a sin a sin (and to share with the afflicted world a wondrous remedy) are deemed not loving but hateful by the very world to which they seek to minister? It is no wonder at all, for \u201ctolerance\u201d does not tolerate love.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, Christ crucified is the very icon of this warped reality. He who is Love Himself, He who is Truth Himself, is calumniated as a heretic and denounced as a liar. In a semi-fictional reflection upon the image of the crucified Christ, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/firstthoughts\/2010\/05\/cs-lewis-on-the-cross\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">C.S. Lewis<\/a> once explained that Christ crucified is not so much an image \u201cof the Straight or Normal or Wholesome,\u201d but rather, \u201cIt was a picture of what happened when the Straight met the Crooked, a picture of what the Crooked did to the Straight\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mercy inspires justice to charity out of obedience to charity, just as justice guides mercy \u2014 with a firm hand, as it were \u2014 to charity out of obedience to charity. Christ was not merciful to man for the simple sake of being merciful, nor was His justice a mere matter of legalistic pedantry: both were born out of love.<\/p>\n<p>The leftist\u2019s anti-virtue of \u201ctolerance\u201d promises the same thing that Christ\u2019s virtues of mercy and justice do \u2014 love! \u2014 but one is the \u201clove\u201d that is practiced in Hell, the other is the love that is perfected in Heaven. Christ is Love Himself because He loves the unlovable, because He takes the wounds and blemishes and stains and sins of the human soul and forgives them, heals them, and suffers Himself for their sake so that we do not have to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTolerance\u201d achieves its barren \u201clove\u201d by saying that only its definition of unloving is unlovable, by taking the wounds and blemishes and stains and sins of the human soul and simply saying that they are lovable attributes, instead of wounds and blemishes and stains and sins.<\/p>\n<p>In short, \u201ctolerance\u201d achieves a sort of annihilation of love through merely ignoring or even outright celebrating that which makes love a virtue in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>To quote again from the Colombian philosopher and aphorist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/10255774-the-cultured-man-has-the-obligation-to-be-intolerant\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nicol\u00e1s G\u00f3mez D\u00e1vila<\/a>, \u201cThe cultured man has the obligation to be intolerant.\u201d Christ was not tolerant of evil: He forgave sin, but He did not excuse it. Just so, charity, mercy, justice \u2014 and, indeed, all the virtues \u2014 demand an intolerance of evil.<\/p>\n<p>Cancer cannot be called a finger or a liver or a lung, it cannot be tolerated. This is not love. The cancer of sin must be boldly declared to be such \u2014 and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/people-now-choosing-identify-handicapped-even-want-limbs-amputated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amputated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article appeared originally on <a href=\"https:\/\/washingtonstand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Stand<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"author-info-45743\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/author\/washingtonstand\/\">  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><label for=\"more-info-tab-radio-45743\">More<span> Biographical Information<\/span><\/label><label for=\"posts-tab-radio-45743\">Recent<span> Posts<\/span><\/label><label for=\"contact-tab-radio-45743\" onclick=\"if( typeof grecaptcha=='undefined' ) { let cap_s=document.createElement( 'script' ); cap_s.src='https:\/\/www.google.com\/recaptcha\/api.js?render=6LeJFcsUAAAAAPsIEqvB1EebWbZfqRUe6ebMpGy7'; document.body.appendChild( cap_s ); }\">Contact<\/label><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>  The Washington Stand is Family Research Council\u2019s outlet for news and commentary from a biblical worldview. The Washington Stand is based in Washington, D.C. and is published by FRC, whose mission is to advance faith, family, and freedom in public policy and the culture from a biblical worldview. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commentary by S.A. McCarthy, The Washington Stand, June 23, 2024. Hell cannot truly create; it only perverts. While we often attribute certain nefarious things to Hell, it&#8217;s important to recognize that only God has the power to create. 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