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...
There is no “radical Christianity” in this gesture. It is a call to recognize and reveal with humility …to the world… the darkness , the unholy and the powerless one that lay hidden behind the clothing of knowledge and certainty. It was shame risen out of the birth of consciousness and the recognition of opposites ( fear and desire , man woman etc.) in Adam and Eve that precluded them from remaining in the Garden naked before God. It is ‘fear and desire’ that guard the gate of re-entry. It is people like St. Francis and others who reveal the ‘way’ back in.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing radical about that and it’s not even about being Christian or Buddhist or Muslim or any other religion or race, or group of any sort…it’s about discovering the fundamental desire ( not the superficial ones) to become human and to respond to that desire.