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...
A few points - The US has a constitution that requires the state to neither promote or inhibit any religion. Unless the state allowed every religious denomination to take part (my guess would be thousands in New York) it would be favouring a selected subset. Secondly the mayor did not prevent religious leaders from holding their own commemorations in their own buildings.
ReplyDeleteLastly, why do Christian view finding a twisted cross symbolic? If they had have found steel girders like a crescent moon, would they have said, "all praise to Allah". No it would have reminded them who was behind the attack. Why treat a cross differently?
Michael