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...
If violating religious freedom is immoral if perpetrated by secularists, then by what logic is it moral if perpetrated by Catholics? The implied premise is that being on the side of the truth is a justification for intolerance. This gives the argument away to relativists, who are suspicious precisely of that premise.
ReplyDeleteWhat a strange reply from yet another Priest .
DeleteReally, do the Priests of today not have enough to do, so that they get into trouble with money, or with young kids, or try to show hoe intelligent they are by these useless comments? Ooops, I am starting to sound like one- it must be contagious.