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...
This has always been religion's claim. That the world is more than the reductionist, analytically, rationalist world of science. That our emotional side leads us to truths as well.
ReplyDeleteWhile science, through the scientific method, posits a methodology of judging the veracity of competing claims how do emotional claims on the nature of God and creation get evaluated. Is there any way that says a sincere Catholic with a positive emotional experience at the Eucharist is any for valid than a Jehovah's Witness, or a Hindu, or a Zoroastrian.
I know some people, friends of mine, who have spiritual beliefs that I find incredulous from a rational point of view, but I don't doubt their sincere beliefs. Are we not subject to a form of spiritual relativism?