"Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man."
Francis Cardinal Spellman
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...
Fr. Tim - The Leafs beat the Sens to make the playoffs. It's enough for a Leafs fan to start thinking in Divine interventions,but for a Sens' fan, the intervention is perhaps not that of a good God.
ReplyDeleteCheers, enjoy the day. The expression "It must be spring, the Leafs are out:" refers only to the aboreal kind.
Rationalist: My congrats to the Leafs. It's too bad that this truculent team Brian Burke built couldn't have made it back to the playoffs in time to save his job. The team he built is looking pretty good right now. Hopefully my Sens will make it there as well. Perhaps we'll meet again if both teams survive the first round. If that happens, we'll have to come up with the appropriate wager. ;->
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Leafs making it to the second round. What great faith you must have. I too wish Brian Burke was still with them. He wasn't perfect but had a heck of a job getting the Leafs back on their feet.
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