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...
By the standards that these things must be measured, admittedly not very high, Benedict has been and is an exemplary pope. I'm sure he's leading the church in the direction of and in the manner that he thinks is best. He is undeniably a man of great sensitivity, scholarship and thoughtful intelligence. If more of his fellow priests shared these traits with him, the church would be more highly regarded than it is.
ReplyDeleteI hope he continues in good health and capable of full function and activity for a long time.
Here you go, Tim.
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You'll like this. A story of little Dutch boys who accused priests of sexually molesting them in the 1950s. The Police upon taking the reports, turned them back over to the Church, which institutionalized them in a church run mental hospital, where they were promptly castrated to help alleviate their dangerous homosexual feelings.
It seems to me that this is the kind of treatment that you and Father Steve would like to see even today of those that accuse priests of inappropriate behavior. What are you two hiding?
How disgusting
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