Thanks to Cristina Alarcon for posting this on her Facebook page.
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...
Careful, Tim. Women in the church, even the Blessed Teresa often turn out to be a two edge sword for the repressive, all male, priestly autocracy.
ReplyDeleteTeresa had a lot to say about those who question and doubt and casts a lot of doubt upon those who would criticize those that do.
Mother Teresa was nothing like the pant suite nuns with men's hair cuts that rail against the church today promoting paganism, pantheism and all manner of new age quackery. She was Catholic. Ironically its the orders that embrace church teaching as Mother Teresa did that are growing while the "progressive" orders are dying off.
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