Fear of religious tolerance; fear of religious or moral pollution?

Fear of religious tolerance; fear of religious or moral pollution?

 In the story The Stowaway by Julian Barnes, Noah hated the half-breeds so he killed them all. He stated that some animals were clean and some were unclean thus creating a hierarchy. This retelling of the Noah story highlights the harms of hierarchical ideology but this time it pertains to the relationships animals share. (and Humans since we humans often like to think of our selves as a separate class or some how separate from the natural world… we just aren’t, we are animals.)

In Christian teens and Biblezines Revolve hates/fears religious “pollution” by “false” religions, and warns against the cultural concept of tolerance. (paragraph 18) Is this a fear of cultural convergence?  A fear or religious tolerance? The fear of polluting ones own religion is a understandable fear to a good God fearing conservative evangelical. All of their traditions that they value are up for grabs, can be reinterpreted and placed in a different context. I could side with them if it were not for the irony of how much cultural convergence produced Christianity as it is known today, and their rather wanton use of things like princess aesthetics (something that does not come from cultures described in the bible) to indoctrinate or educate their many children.

Following in the same paragraph “false religions” is said to actually be considered “moral pollution”  “the popular idea… that any behavior or lifestyle choice is OK” is false because God hates Sin.” Did the people at Revolve say this or did Hillary Kaell the author of Christian Teens and Biblezines add this later? What paragraph is she referring to in paragraph 18?

While this is said in respect to the dilemma of Christians dating Non-Christians, the philosophy behind this can be used for understanding the conservative evangelical Christian ideologies towards groups of people with a different religion.

Paragraph 21 describes witnessing or prostilitizing techniques teens can use with their non-Christian friends. While teens are told not to have non-Christian boyfriends or girlfriends, they are still allowed to have non-Christian friends.

“The First response counsels asking a direct question (“What do you believe?”) but it is not meant to lead to an open discussion (i.e., “I believe in Jesus Christ and you should too). Instead girls are told to be respectful and seem interested in other people’s faiths so that they can “befriend them and (gradually) lead them to truth of the Good News.” (Paragraph 21)

When it comes to seeming interested it seems like a slippery slope in to the sin of deceit. Cause they really aren’t interested in the other religion.

Here the hierarchy ideology is very visible again.