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...
" "I, ______, take you, ______, to be my wife/husband. I promise to be true to you in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health. I will love you and honor you all the days of my life."
ReplyDeleteThe Catholic marriage ceremony and that of many other denominations and religions focuses on the support two spouses have for each other. They are two people who have promised publicly to support and love the other person in good times and in bad. There is no talk of sex despite its importance to the theologians and indeed one thing one learns from being married is that sex is good but loving someone and committing to someone is much better.
Indeed if you took the theologians at their word a couple who separated and then moved on to a subsequent relationships where the new partners lived their vows of supporting the new partner as above but didn't engage in sex would be okay. The theologians need to tone down the sexual obsession and realize that marriages are 95% (or so) non sexual and 5% sexual (or so).