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...
Well written. There is NO EXCUSE!
ReplyDeleteI read with care the part of section 152 that was quoted, and I have to say that before we do anything else, we need to clean up the language in the CCC. The way it's written, any person who offers to shake hands with a child and remarks (before or afterwatrds) to anyone else about the attractiveness of said child can be found guilty of a criminal offense! We need to make that language a whole lot less ambiguous and less open to interpretation!
ReplyDeleteNext thing we have to do is get rid of any language that infers or directs that these crimes have anything at all to do with sex. They are related to sex the same way gluttony is related to nutrition. The mechanics are the same; but the motive is different.
Do those two things first, then we can actually start the process of cleaning out the trash, because we will have cut away 90% of the "defense" ammunition.