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...
OH-LA-LA! Follow the rules the bishops say. No masturbation. Good luck with that one.
ReplyDeleteSexual drives are very strong in those just through puberty. Incidences of masturbation several times a day are not uncommon among this group. Given the hormonal storm they are experiencing they are better for it.
The church is just wrong. It's not a question of them being wrong about interdictions on specific behavior. They are wrong about what God wants for his children.
The Sister isn't wrong. The bishops are. Most if not all of these bishops have sex. Some of them have a lot of sex. That's OK with me. Some of them have coercive sex with inappropriate partners who are not truly consenting participants. That's not all right. Looking for sin? Now that's a sin.
Does the Sister advocate coercive sex? The bishops did, for themselves and their priests, tacitly, over many generations. That's why they are now selling off church assets wholesale and paying billions to their victims.
There will be no groundswell of support for the bishops in their persecution of women religious, the books they write, the missions they undertake, the acts of charity they perform.
The bishop and his attendant priests pass by the Sister daily, as she stands on a gritty, urban street corner clutching her bus pass in hand, on the way to her job at the local shelter for battered women and their children, ensconsed in a big black limosine. They think her a sinner and heretic. LOL!