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...
Fifty years is an eye blink in the history of the Catholic Church. What Vatican II was actually about has been a bone of contention since the very beginning. Liberal factions may have embroidered some new meanings into it's annuls. The reactionary hierarchy is certainly doing everything in it's power to rewrite it's history and significance to uphold their autocratic power and clerical majesty.
ReplyDeleteIt's taken on a life of it's own in the folkways of the church and those folkways will lead where they will and the church will have to travel them, irregardless of what the different factions would like. It's a Magical Mystery Tour.