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...
Many folks, that includes many Catholics like me believe, think, and are saying what my friend Thomas said, he puts it clear and simple.
ReplyDeleteThomas said:
""I think what most of us want is for criminals... not just the priests who abused children, but also all those who took part in covering up and protecting those criminals, to face the legal consequences that any other criminals would ordinarily face. Sorry, but that isn't "hate," that's just a rational society demanding justice. The pope is correcting nothing. The church has been forced to acknowledge these crimes because they got busted.
The pope continues to deny responsibility for his own part and hundreds of bishops, cardinals and priests who looked the other way and allowed these crimes to continue unfettered. The pope continues to be the one "spreading hate" by wrongly putting the blame on "homosexuals," and even now is whining that the legal authorities have the audacity to aggressively investigate these crimes instead of letting the Roman Catholic Church handle it. We know that allowing the Roman Catholic Church to police itself turned out to be a disaster, and that is why we HAVE this sex abuse scandal in the first place.
The pope continues to act as if the church is the victim, and has not shown an ounce of respect to the REAL victims. Every time he tries to shift the blame on homosexuals, or the media, or the legal authorities, it amounts to kicking and slapping and screwing the victims all over again. It is so sickening to see people sticking up for the criminals while ignoring the victims.
If there is less abuse, it is not because the pope or the Vatican is "correcting" anything... the thanks goes to the very media you decry for bringing the stories to light. As ‘another poster’ said, if they hadn't been exposed, the abuse would surely still be happening since they have only pretended to be doing ANYTHING since they got busted.""