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Title: The New Tolerance: How a Cultural Movement Threatens to Destroy You, Your Faith, and Your Children by Josh McDowell, Bob Hoste, Bob Hostetler ISBN: 0-8423-7088-9 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: 01 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (13 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: "New Tolerance" tolerates everything BUT Christianity
Comment: This book is a "must read" for anyone who wants to understand the reasons underlying our nation's cultural collapse. It also explains why our society tolerates everything EXCEPT Christianity.
Basically, McDowell explains how today's definition of "tolerance" differs radically from the traditional dictionary definition. He discusses how and why the definition of tolerance has changed, how the new tolerance manifests itself in our society, and concludes by giving concrete ideas for Christian witness in the midst of today's culture.
The traditional definition of tolerance means to "endure" or put up with something, such as a person's behavior, attitudes or beliefs, without necessarily agreeing with them. In other words, love the sinner, hate the sin. However, today's definition of tolerance is more like "love the sinner, love the sin." Today's definition of tolerance states that a person's behavior, beliefs and attitudes are inseparable from who he or she is. Therefore, any attack on behaviors, beliefs or attitudes is seen as a personal attack.
The evolution of tolerance is the result of the evolution of other aspects of human existence, including the concept of truth, over three distinct eras. During the first era, ethical theism, people believed that all truth was revealed by God. In the second era, modernism, the emphasis shifted from God to mankind, and the concept of truth changed from being something that is revealed by God to being something that is discernable by man. Finally, in the third and present era, post-modernism, truth has changed from being something that is collectively true for human beings to something that is determined by each individual person, based on that person's culture, which in turn consists of behaviors, attitudes and beliefs.
Because each person's idea of truth is based on their unique culture, and because all people are created equally, the new tolerance decrees that no one person can claim to possess a superior truth, or a truth that is "more true" than other people's truths. Rather, all truth claims are equally valid.
The idea of equal truth claims has profound implications for those of us who believe in Jesus Christ and absolute standards of right and wrong. These implications include the death of truth, the disappearance of virtue, the demise of justice, the loss of conviction, the privatization of faith, the tyranny of the individual, the disintegration of human rights. the dominance of feeling, the exaltation of nature, and the descent into extremes.
Furthermore, it especially targets Christians because Christians believe that their truth claim -- Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior -- is in fact superior to any other truth claims. Because Christianity claims to have "The Way, the Truth and the Life" and does not accept other truth claims as equally valid or actively condone or participate in them, it is therefore "intolerant." And because Christianity is intolerant, it is therefore okay for a "tolerant" society to persecute it in any way necessary to force it to become tolerant. That is why the mere mention or presence of Christian concepts or symbology provokes rage and concerted efforts to obliterate them.
McDowell explains some of the "tactics of tolerance" and how these are being applied to make Christians conform. These include equating nonagreement with phobia, nonconformity with hate, conviction with fanaticism, Christian creeds, prayers and symbols with discrimination, and selective segregation with justice.
Having laid that groundwork in the early chapters of the book, McDowell goes on to cite how the "new tolerance" has invaded every sphere of our society and how it underlies just about every factor contributing to our culture's breakdown. He shows that the new tolerance is the common thread that explains why a crucifix suspended in urine is considered art, why animals and the environment are more important than people, why sexual perversion is encouraged while traditional families are discouraged, and a host of other societal phenomena. Following that, McDowell gives practical advice for witnessing to Christ without giving in to the new tolerance.
The entire book is fascinating, but what helped me most personally are two things. First, McDowell articulates the new tolerance using concrete terminology; he gives names and a new vocabulary for describing the effects of the new tolerance. Second, he shows how the new tolerance relates to and is responsible for a vast array of problems in society, how it is the common thread running between all of them.
I strongly recommend this book to any of you who would like to understand the new tolerance better and what you can do to fight it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Tolerance for tolerance's sake is the problem
Comment: =-=-=
This book is not only highly recommended, but highly necessary.
Criticisms that the book denounces tolerance are irrelevant.
Tolerance is neither good nor evil. It is a neutral act. Its entire value is determined by the nature of what is being tolerated.
Germans in the 1930s and 1940s tolerated Hitler and the holocaust. Was tolerance good? The doctrine of separate but equal facilities based on race was tolerated in America. Was that tolerance good?
The idea that tolerance in and of itself has become worthy of worship is precisely the perversion that McDowell addresses in this book.
To tolerate evil is a sin, as any born again Christian knows. And indeed, unless one is born again he is lost, agonizingly and eternally condemned, which incidentally is the ultimate measure of being a failure as a human being.
"... he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. - John 3:18 [KJV]
The sweeping, uncritical acceptance of tolerance irrespective of what is being tolerated is one of the greatest threats to civilization and to Christianity.
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Rating: 1
Summary: Hate is love. Our god is truth.
Comment: McDowell is the sort of shallow thinker that would get laughed out of any sophomore debating class, and this book is solid proof. Like all fundamentalists of whatever religion, he claims that his own god and his own religious and political beliefs are "The Truth" and everyone else's are false.
And since all beliefs others than his are false, that makes them EVIL.
All the GOOD people agree with him, and follow his god, and hate all the people he hates.
These EVIL people are not just EVIL, they're persecuting Christians.
If they don't embrace our religion, they are attacking us.
If they ignore us, they are persecuting us.
If they don't hate everybody that we hate, they are assaulting us.
If they don't think we deserve special privileges, they are persecuting us.
And because god is on our side, our god says we should destroy them because that's the loving thing to do.
Don't you see?
Hate is love. If you don't hate all the people we hate, you are being intolerant of us because it's our duty to hate people who don't agree with us. That's how we show our Christian love.
If you don't buy this nonsense, you're obviously not McDowell's target market.
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Title: Right From Wrong by Josh McDowell ISBN: 0849936047 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 07 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Beyond Belief to Convictions (Beyond Belief Campaign) by Josh D. McDowell, Bob Hostetler ISBN: 0842374094 Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Moral Dilemmas by J. Kerby Anderson ISBN: 0849914469 Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: The New Evidence That Demands A Verdict Fully Updated To Answer The Questions Challenging Christians Today by Josh McDowell ISBN: 0785243631 Publisher: Nelson Reference Pub. Date: 22 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.97 |
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Title: The Disconnected Generation by Josh McDowell ISBN: 084994077X Publisher: Word Publishing Pub. Date: 18 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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