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...
We waited until around 7 last evening over at the farm.
ReplyDeleteLarry: My apologies. When I went to the cottage I discovered that the comment I had saved with your phone numbers disappeared from the site with the change of year. I also had to return home for another funeral here this morning. (The flu bug has taken out five residents since Dec 23rd and I've been bouncing back and forth from funerals there and here.) Once again, I am very sorry for the confusion. I would have driven to the farm to tell you all this but I don't know where it is!
ReplyDeleteCan we try again for this coming week? I plan to be at the cottage for Monday if that would work for you. If that's not good for you, I hope we can work out another date at your earliest convenience. Perhaps you and Arden would let me cook for you at my place since you've already had to prepare one meal for a 'no show' guest?
Fr. Tim
P.S. Could you please send me an email at my address (tim.moyle@stannesparish.ca) so that we can have a less public forum to work out the details.
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Fr. Tim
Larry: Did you catch this message from me? Fr. Tim
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