Fr. Raymond deSouza takes on Christopher Hitchens!
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=60ab942b-97f5-43b7-ab89-49d3067e3ca4
http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=60ab942b-97f5-43b7-ab89-49d3067e3ca4
Good will to all men? Not from the grumpy atheists! (Thank God not all atheists are grumpy but there sure seems to be a lot of them)
Why is it that so many in the atheist community cannot bring themselves to get past their anger whenever they engage in discussions? The language of many of their contributions in public debate is laced with invective and dripping with sarcasm and bile. There are exceptions of course, but they tend to fall more into the category of being the 'exception that proves the rule' when compared to the hostility of many of today's atheist posters. Comment offered by the theists in the public square is often depicted as being 'malicious' or 'venomous' and intended to enslave the 'feeble minded and weak' by those who post. Nothing could be further from the truth. Venom is something that is oriented to death. Christians are oriented in a 180 degree different direction. We speak not to the culture of death that grips our world but rather for the culture of life and light which ends with the gift of eternal life. For example, the Catholic Church in its hum...
This has taken on a life of its own quite apart from any facts in the case. What is commonly accepted social knowledge is a world apart from any established fact.
ReplyDeleteThere is a sense of entitlement abroad in the land. When they see the picture of a bearded man in a Roman collar at the top of this blog some feel entitled to level all sorts of accusations and abuse. No proof need be offered... the image of the priest in the popular mind is enough.
There is more than enough pain to go around here. This is Christopher Hitchens' world after all. The mob with their torches and clubs is too involved in sating its own lust for revenge to notice the small voice of the victim. They do not care whether they have gotten the right man.
Scapegoating...
http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&entry_id=2748
It allows a person to avoid all sorts of pain. There is the pain of the victims whose lives have been destroyed. Healing means listening to their pain, not avoiding it.
Scapegoating, the transferring of anger from legitimate targets to more convenient ones, does not serve the victims. It contributes nothing to the healing process.
Christopher Hitchens is yet another vulture who feasts on the pain and suffering of others.