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...
Catholics have not lost their religious freedom, but what they have lost is society's acceptance of Catholic beliefs on the general public. Catholics are free to not accept gay marriage for instance, but they are not free to impose that belief upon the public. For instance a Catholic hospital that receives government money may not refuse to treat a gay patient and allow the patient's spouse full visitation rights. If they ran the hospital with their own money it would, in my opinion, not be illegal to deny gay spousal visitations to the sick patient, just immoral.
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