{"id":11179,"date":"2024-02-24T02:56:12","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/kirk-cameron-says-christians-shouldnt-tolerate-tyranny\/"},"modified":"2024-02-24T02:56:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T21:26:12","slug":"kirk-cameron-says-christians-shouldnt-tolerate-tyranny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/24\/kirk-cameron-says-christians-shouldnt-tolerate-tyranny\/","title":{"rendered":"Kirk Cameron says Christians shouldn’t ‘tolerate tyranny’"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

\n
\n

Intolerance for evil is a ‘very essential Christian virtue’, actor says<\/h2>\n
By Ian M. Giatti<\/a>, Christian Post Reporter
\"Actor<\/source><\/picture>
Actor and Brave Books founder Tim Cameron during an appearance on Timcast IRL on February 21, 2024. <\/span> | Screenshot\/YouTube\/Timcast IRL<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kirk Cameron has some thoughts on what it really means to “turn the other cheek.”<\/p>\n

The actor said intolerance, at least when it comes to evil and tyranny, is in fact a \u201cvery essential Christian virtue,\u201d one which, he added, America\u2019s founding fathers espoused.<\/p>\n

In a Feb. 21 appearance on the \u201cTimcast IRL\u201d podcast<\/a> with Tim Pool, Cameron touched upon a number of topics, including his fight against \u201creligious viewpoint discrimination\u201d in public libraries and Noah Webster\u2019s Christian influence on education.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But it was in response to Pool\u2019s apparent reference to a Christian Post story<\/a> earlier this month about his comments on conservative Christians playing a role in America’s decline by being \u201ctolerant and accepting\u201d that led to a lively conversation between Pool and Cameron.<\/p>\n

Crediting a 2023 speech <\/a>by entrepreneur Patrick Bet David for his comments, Pool summarized David’s speech as essentially saying, \u201cChristians in this country are good people who keep saying OK to these people, being tolerant, allowing them to live the way they want to live.<\/p>\n

“But what happens is they push more into the institutions, they introduce dangerous, bad ideas, they start targeting kids, and now we’re here where we are today.”<\/p>\n

Cameron responded by saying \u201cturn the other cheek\u201d and \u201clove your neighbor\u201d were never intended to allow for the tolerance of evil.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 I see so many who are just tolerating evil and that\u2019s not loving your neighbor,\u201d he said. \u201cAt the end of the day, the two great Commandments of Christianity are to love God with all of your heart, mind, soul and strength, and the second is like it, to love your neighbor as yourself.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you ‘tolerate’ the kinds of things that bring misery to your neighbors and ultimately strip them of their liberties, you’re not loving them.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an example, he cited Just War Theory<\/a>, followed by most Christians for over a thousand years, which states that if you believe your enemy is preparing to attack, you are justified in defending your own people by attacking first.<\/p>\n

Cameron said the Constitution is another means of mitigating against overreach by tyrants.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t tolerate tyranny, either from the outside or the inside, and that is a very essential Christian virtue, is to not tolerate that type of thing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He contrasted the act of Christian charity and forgiveness with a biblical notion of justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you’re gonna cuss me out and you’re gonna steal my coat, I might love you anyway and give you my shirt too,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd in doing that, people go \u2014 their conscience convicts them and they come back around and go, ‘Why do you do that? Why do you live that way?’<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you come after my kids, or you start stripping away my liberties, or you make my neighbors live in poverty and misery so that you can go live on Epstein island? No, I think we shouldn’t tolerate that.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the conversation veered into the subject of various tenets of Christianity, Pool offered up a frank assessment of his own religious views.<\/p>\n

After sharing about an exchange he had with some Seventh-day Adventist evangelists canvassing his neighborhood, Pool said, \u201cI\u2019m not a Christian, I believe in God, I grew up Catholic, don\u2019t really follow organized religion \u2026 but I love the history of this country.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI love understanding the Bill of Rights. I love understanding why the Founding Fathers decided to enshrine the things they did and why, and … this is a historical fact, it was concepts of biblical teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

He compared the account in Genesis 18 of Abraham bargaining with God over the fate of the righteous in Sodom with Blackstone\u2019s ratio<\/a>, a legal theory which states that it is preferable for 10 guilty persons to escape rather than to have one innocent person suffer.<\/p>\n

Pool said, like Blackstone\u2019s ratio, the morality of America\u2019s Founders was \u201crooted in Christian teaching.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Founding Fathers just didn\u2019t read the Bible and say, \u2018Let\u2019s do what the Bible says,\u2019\u201d he explained. \u201cThey actually thought about what it would mean to create a government that opposed those teachings.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

Ian M. Giatti is a reporter for The Christian Post and the author of\u00a0BACKWARDS DAD: a children’s book for grownups<\/a><\/em>. He can be reached at:\u00a0ian.giatti@christianpost.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Free<\/span> Religious Freedom Updates<\/h2>\n

Join thousands of others to get the FREEDOM POST<\/strong> newsletter for free, sent twice a week from The Christian Post.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intolerance for evil is a ‘very essential Christian virtue’, actor says By Ian M. Giatti, Christian Post Reporter Friday, February 23, 2024 Actor and Brave Books founder Tim Cameron during an appearance on Timcast IRL on February 21, 2024. | Screenshot\/YouTube\/Timcast IRL Kirk Cameron has some thoughts on what it really means to “turn the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[]},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cccfornews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}