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...
I was quite young, but I do remember that Kennedy's religion was used as a scare tactic, and that I didn't understand why. I still don't.
ReplyDeleteMy best friend at the time was Catholic, and she was okay, so what was the big deal? Among the two of us and our parents and siblings and friends, we none of us ever figured out why being Catholic would disqualify anyone from doing something. So we dropped the subject and refused to return to it. We had the evidence of our own experiences, and we all just decided that the scare tactics were so much garbage.
I think that was my first brush with bigotry. And having worked out for myself that it was a load of crap, I've never let myself get suckered by it. No one's religion or ethnicity or culture is the sole defining feature of their character. And those who claim otherwise need to be brought up short.