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...
Hope you had a good time and here's a joke awaiting you when you return. It's a two part joke, the first part everyone will get, the second, only people over 50 will find it funny, under 50 they won't understand.
ReplyDeleteIt was at the creation of the world and God was creating all the animals in pairs and telling them to be fruitful and multiply. A few years later God came back to check on the animals and there were two lions and a bunch of little lions, two elephants and a bunch of not so little elephants, two rabbits and a whole lot of rabbits. Everything seemed fine until he saw two snakes and no little snakes. God asked why they didn't multiply and they said "We can't, we're adders".
God felt sorry for the snakes so he cut down some trees and fashioned a little log cabin and used some logs to make some furniture, chairs, table, beds for them to live out their remaining years in comfort.
A few years later God came back and saw more, lions, more elephants and way too many rabbits. Dropping in on the adders to see how they were he was surprised to see many, many little snakes. Taken aback God said, I thought you couldn't multiply as you were adders. "That's true," said the snakes, "but you gave us log tables."