>Hi Sam,
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>DraganN understood the point I was making rather clearly. I think you should be able to too.
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>I said that ***most*** Christians were tolerant, and that my experience is that ***most*** people of OTHER 'religions' and also athiests are tolerant too.

Ok I understand that. But it seems to me you're are making a wide general statment about Christians. If you're just talking about a few "bad" apples, I have no problem with your view.

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>Now my list was composed of items that Christian LEADERS have been pushing on the rest of the country for decades, if not centuries. LEADERS, remember.
>So while most people of the world ARE "tolerant", Christian religious LEADERS are known to be intolerant. That they may use words like "I love the person but not their lifestyle" is as phoney as it comes because these LEADERS want to MAKE LAWS SUPPORTING THEIR BELIEFS.
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>It's not OK by them for gays to just go on living as they do. It's not OK by them for a woman who may feel she needs to abort a child to be able to go ahead and do so. ETC. ETC.
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>If these leaders were "tolerant" they would preach these thing ONLY to those who attend their sermons.

Shouldn't their life reflect what they preach, whether in public or private or on the pulpit? If one says one thing in one place and say the opposite at another place, what does that make him? a hypocrite?


>and they would embrace any who did attend who admitted to one of the deviances they abhor.

From what I've seen personally, not on TV, they are very open to "nonbelievers". They may not agree with what a person does, but I have never seen I person in a Christian leadership role chastise or embarase anyone in public for being "different".


>You surely heard of the Christian church LEADER who believes that George Bush ought not to be President because he KNOWINGLY appointed a Vice-President who is KNOWN to have a gay DAUGHTER. Some "tolerance"!

Ok, if so. That's one.

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>I believe I'm thousands of time more "Christian" than any of these church leaders who want to IMPOSE THEIR DEFINITIONS - Christian 'definitions' - on EVERYBODY.

Ok. I'll take your word for it. Because I don't judge. :)