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...
Someone many be impersonating you again on NP. See the last post in 'Public schools'
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ReplyDeleteSadly no... I have to admit that it was me, but I wrote it in the middle of the night when I couldn't sleep. I did however think that I had deleted the post when I re-read it and saw how cheap and demeaning I was being. It was one of those 'write out a nasty response to get it out of my system' types of notes that I did not intend to publish. Clearly I should have taken more care to ensure that I had in fact deleted it.
My sincere apologies to Lisbeth40 and to anyone else who took offense at my intemperate remarks. It is certainly not one of my finest moments.
Fr. Tim
Amen!
ReplyDelete*ahem* First, he lambastes the protesters for confusing one religion with another, and immediately afterwards he comes up with: "The whole thing had a whiff of voodoo about it, as the protesters sought to make the pontiff into a doll they could beat up." *sigh* Perhaps when the protesters have finsihed reading his suggested, Are You Smarter Than A 10-Year-Old?, he can borrow it from one of them...
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