Have Some Christians Earned Intolerance?

To many, it is no wonder that such actions result in the very disrespect and intolerance that their acts ironically exemplify. One finds it difficult to not experience repugnance, and understandably, critics abound concluding that Christianity itself is intolerant, encompassing not only Christians like these, but the myriad who show intolerance on a daily basis due to fear or disagreement with others’ beliefs.

Miroslav Volf, founding director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture, says the dispute between the critics is “primarily about whether intolerance is a defining characteristic of these faiths or a profound distortion of them.”

Critics include many Christians who feel that by such acts these people have debased and profaned their own religion. Some feel these few invite or engender intolerance for all of their faith and also provoke inappropriate reaction toward and from the religious diversity of the United States


To many, it is no wonder that such actions result in the very disrespect and intolerance that their acts ironically exemplify. One finds it difficult to not experience repugnance, and understandably, critics abound concluding that Christianity itself is intolerant, encompassing not only Christians like these, but the myriad who show intolerance on a daily basis due to fear or disagreement with others’ beliefs.

Miroslav Volf, founding director of Yale Center for Faith and Culture, says the dispute between the critics is “primarily about whether intolerance is a defining characteristic of these faiths or a profound distortion of them.”

Critics include many Christians who feel that by such acts these people have debased and profaned their own religion. Some feel these few invite or engender intolerance for all of their faith and also provoke inappropriate reaction toward and from the religious diversity of the United States.

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