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...
Increasingly throughout the world (non religious) evidence emerges from the collective human psyche that reveals the awakening of a very fundamental desire for unity and an active spiritualization. There is obviously , to often, still a distinct line separating the rich/powerful from the poor /weak but it is that line which is becoming less tolerable , unacceptable and outright rejected by the mass regardless of which category they belong to. In other words the poor and the weak are being gradually raised up from the bottom of the ‘worldly structured ‘ pyramid as a result of this mysterious collective movement and Christ who placed himself at the bottom of the pyramid is being raised with them.
ReplyDeleteThe painful tragedy is that the church (religion) makes the concrete distinction between itself and the “worldly” - a blinding decision which renders her completely oblivious to Christ in residence on earth as in heaven.