Free Florida's 'food terrorists' | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Free Florida's 'food terrorists' | Amy Goodman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
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...
First thing you need to realize is that this is not about food, it's about politics, ambitions, and power.
ReplyDeleteHomeless, hungry people have no power, and usually, their only ambition is to get their next meal and a place to sleep out of the weather. But let a political or religious group (especially one in opposition to the reigning pols) start feeding them, and they will grow an affinity with that political or religious group -- their benefactors -- and acquire power by proxy with that group. And that is precisely what the state does NOT want!
I keep warning folks who have double agendas that they must divide their goals rather than combining them. If your goal is to feed people, then you must not combine that with politics or religion, because your hidden agenda will always be suspect by those who oppose it.
Oops...error. I meant to say, "power by association," not, "power by proxy."
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