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...
Father Tim:
ReplyDeleteSupporting Obamacare makes you unusual for thoee of us who live here in the US (even if only part time).
Imagine being 10 Trillion Dollars in debt and then committing to spend another trillion to bring about a health care plan that you cannot afford, that is based on pork for the Democrats in the House at the time to get their votes, and then write it up in 16,000 pages so it is unmanageable, an make people vote on it in a hurry without reading it, as if that would have been possible anyway.
Gives one pause, I hope.
Michael