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...
All of the current Republicans candidates are a disaster. Cruz is arguably more so than Trump. The obvious solution is to vote for the Democratic candidate where the policies are in better agreement with Catholic teacher except for the abortion or gay marriage issue. But gay marriage was decided by the Supreme Court and abortions go down under Democratic presidential terms and go up or stay flat during Republican ones.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_United_States
Prominent Conservative Catholics are only prominent among themselves, which is to say, among almost no one.
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