Follow culture of choices, tolerance will come naturally. Forced things breed intolerance.
You know why index finger is placed next to thumb? So you can always know, index finger is the rule of thumb for faith, the choice of faith.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here.
Don’t become the error in defeating the error. Do you know why you do not hear any examples of Jesus breaking the idols and statues? Because of life’s choices. The man who tells you idol worshiping is not the perfect way to go, but he won’t break statues or idols. Why? Because of tolerance, the steps you take to ensure you are you in thyself?
Would I be making statues of Shiv or Jesus today, to worship them? No, only for art. Do not make a culture or a religion out of art, art is just art, like God designed beauty of nature in its originality.
You just need a clear head to understand, are all these religious symbols that we have not the result of differences peeking from our attachments to different form of artistic expressions?
What is a statue, what is a Chriscent or what is a Cross? Manifestations of our desires to express what we believe. Sometimes memories, heritage. Why do we need that, stand erect with your feet closed and arms wide spread open, isn’t your body the ultimate expression of faith and God’s mystery?
We we become like those who destroyed statues of Buddha in Afghanistan? Those who lie, bend the truth out of shape, bend the names out of shape, bend the faces out of shape, this acid of hate and acid culture? Sophistication demands, that we be tolerant.
Not be cowards, but courageous, not foolish brave, but courageous, because bravery often guides you to aggressiveness, blinds of faults within, courage guides you to project strength towards outside only but within as well.
Never become, what you are trying to defeat, or you’ll end up starting hunger games you fraught against, become the Hitler that you preached against. In all of yourselves, never lose yourselves because you return to God as children.
Are we going to run out of strength as mortals? No. We are mortals on another level. There’s no point of faith if along the journey we carry out our beliefs whilst the message is lost. Never lose the message. We do belong to a tolerant and peaceful culture. Time tests us, but we, prevail. Expressions of Paul are old, but they are still Funk.