It's not about tolerance. As a matter of fact, tolerance locks everybody into the conflict inherent to the notion of all views being valid when the reality is some views are objectively more wrong than other views in specific regards and contexts. What matters right now is figuring out what justice means because it's obvious that everybody's debating what should be considered a right. Might I add how amusing it is that when a world view is stating its mission statement of sorts, it calls its conclusions about the world "facts" and the viewpoint of their opponents' as "opinions", yet when their worldview gets criticized for a reason that makes sense, we must accommodate even views that are beneficial to no one- that we must respect all opinions- liberals and conservatives are both guilty of this. This begs the question of, if you're really all that serious about believing in God or believing in the idea of no God, where do you feel you have come up short in your own life? What are you really looking for?
Well let me tell you what you're looking for: whatever type of love that suits you for the moment. Love is a powerful emotion. It makes us take risks we wouldn't normally take. Why would I walk for two hours through sketchy neighborhoods only to lack the courage to say more than just hey to Allison? Why would I give Rachel any type of money, even if it's for a good cause? Why would I abruptly skip town the fall after a spring's worth of a 19 year old girl refusing to leave me alone while all the people around us were telling us to slow that business down, and now she's blocked me in order to absolve herself of anything? Love is powerful enough to use to control a person, and the powers that be know this full well. They would much rather us all be addled charity cases. Let it not be so.
Never mind politics or religion; this is what's really happening. Not only in the media, but in real life, most people think about how religion and irreligion are different. In many ways they are the same- same in the sense of the sense of right and wrong varies, and that what really matters is emotions and how to respect that in others and control that in yourself. After all, wasn't it the Apostle Paul that said that Jesus was a new covenant- a new deal- and in that, in some ways, the old Mosaic conventions were cast aside? One time, my old man illustrated this point to me by turning off a light when talking about how the Jews failed to follow Mosaic Law and then turned the bedroom light back on while reading to me about the redemptive and transformative mercy of Jesus Christ.
Cast all aside. God's story is what's really happening.
