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 think they got the Diderot quote wrong, it should be "strangle the last king with the guts of the last priest".
ReplyDeleteI think it makes a difference.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/priest-who-oversaw-church-trial-in-wisconsin-abuse-case-admits-error/
ReplyDeleteSo Tim, what does this do to your outrage over the Fr Murphy trial controversy. Does it make you kind of sad and sick?
Not only did Bertone, as Ratso's surrogate, tell the diocese to lay off but Brundage, after consultation on the matter with Weakland, coached Weakland on how to instruct him to do it, in the most nefarious way possible, which he then did.
Culpability all around, from top to bottom.
Reddog: Culpability all round indeed! No, I haven't really changed what I think about this case, at least in the media's assertion that B16 was directly involved. However, it is virtually impossible not to say that this case (like many others) demonstrates that the Church was more concerned about its public image that it was about justice and fidelity. George Weigel used the image of a stable in need of being cleaned out. He (I fear) was more apt in his metaphor than he intended given the horse shit that many in the Church have been shoveling in lieu of truth and justice.
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