Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Don't be so open-minded that your brain falls out.

A tolerant, open-minded, non-judgmental attitude is publicly presented as the creme de la creme of progressive secular humanism and group think. It is often represented by those bumper stickers that leave a tickle of annoyance to squirm through the back of your mind: "COEXIST" and "TOLERANCE" being the main examples wherein the letters are scrawled out as major religious symbols (i.e. the "t" is a cross, the "c" is the star and crescent). While thinking about this, I ran across a quote attributed to G.K. Chesterton: "When a Man stops believing in God he doesn't then believe in nothing, he believes anything."

...And believing in "anything" can get you killed because having true wisdom tends to shut one's mind to foolish, man-made ideologies that have no capability to save or enrich (Consider this passage from Proverbs 1). Wisdom brings life but a belief in "anything" breeds foolishness. The image below conveys the fallacy of open-mindedness and tolerance between competing and wholly different ideologies and philosophies.


I have seen quotes from Muslims and atheists that fall along the lines of "We love death more than you love life." Such people will lord their authority over those who are not willing to sacrifice their life to protect what is good and holy. Where can we find such a person? I thank God that through Jesus Christ we have such an advocate and defender. Only Jesus has the strength to save us from our enemies in this life and our final enemy which is death. All those who put their trust in Him will by no means be put to shame.

5 comments:

  1. I'm not sure I understand you correctly...Are you saying that ONLY through jesus a person is safe, wise, good, righteous, etc?

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  2. what a shitty meme and why no mention of paganism christians killed billions thanks for the lie

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  3. when you accepted christ you killed yourself but believe what u wish not like YOU will offer me the same courteosy

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  4. Thank you for this!!! Another quote by Chesterton would be "Don't be so open-minded that your brains fall out." These "coexist" and "tolerant" mindsets don't allow for logic in people (particularly Christians) because society wants to silence people like us who believe in both Christ and reasoning.
    Again, thank you for writing this; thank you for being a voice when many Christians are silenced!

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