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 are very few if any at all ' Atheists' in the world. There are however a growing number (a myriad) of individual souls who are experiencing an alienation from the Eternal One because they are not able to recognize a distinction between God , the Transcendent One, that is, the Being that transcends all human comprehension and LOVE - and the false one - the god who loves the ‘best ones’, ‘ the ones on the right side. The god of the fanatics ( those who cannot separate their own superficial desire and their own EGOs from what they call God. From the Ala who thirsts for human bloodshed to a Christ who ‘calls `on his followers to rise up on a global scale in fear of a perceived War.
ReplyDeleteOur religions and our churches (especially the Catholic Church) are such a rapidly declining and sorry state of affairs.
Thank God for that I have been reminded by the words of Jean Vanier, “ the church is increasingly losing it’s influence over the world, but not Jesus.”
I think the perceived war against 'Christians' is in fact a worldwide awakening intolerance toward unholy human injustices orchestrated and perpetrated by unholy men in holy places and clothed in holy outerwear and who use the name of God and Jesus Christ to fuel rage, fear and war. The craving for certitude, political, social and spiritual power clears the way for the metaphorical , the similitude of effects such as ’ the wrath of God’ but it leaves no room for the literal Love and Compassion that God is above all.
ReplyDeleteWho can call themselves a Christian if they have refused to allow Christ to kneel down and wash their feet? Who?