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...
Most Catholics stay affiliated with the church because of strong family, cultural and social ties. They hope against hope that the church will change.
ReplyDeleteThe Church will change and change dramatically. It has before and will again. because the church is an elderly patriarchal autocracy, it changes very slowly.
Whether most Catholics will leave the church or choose to stay is up to them. I don't think the opinion of the NYT figures into it at all. The Church itself is not going to kick many people out. It antagonizes those that remain rather than chastises them.
Many people can trace their Catholicism back a thousand years or more. That's not something you just give up because the current crop of priests are poofty wankers.
Reddog, have you been drinking? If you are not, you should be.
ReplyDeleteYour anti-Catholic rant is ............. yawn ............so boring. And what exactly did we Catholics do to you in order for you to spew such hate speech?
I am not anti Catholic. I am anti clerical and certainly not limited to Catholic priests. There are some priests I'm very fond of but the Pope keeps shutting them away. Frank Drinan. Tom Reese. Bill Morris. Peter Kennedy.
ReplyDeleteYou might ask instead of Catholics, what have Catholic priests done to me? You mightn't like the answer. You would likely say I'm lying, then hire lawyers to demean and discredit me. So what's the point, Laddybuck?
Poofty wanker, indeed.
Understand completely - but remember we have all dealt with some weak and creepy individuals. It doesn't mean they are all the same. I have known men who beaten their wives, girlfriends; sexually assaulted their children or took off so they would not have pay child support. I do not, however, place all men in those categories.
ReplyDeleteThat's just the fact, indeed.