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...
Fr.Tim,
ReplyDeleteThis is good news. Good positive stories about the clergy instead of all the negativity about priests. Sadly, some folks will fine this boring. No matter there are many good loyal priests.
My mother told me this real story about a priest who was a pastor of a small French Church. One day a male parishioner went to see this priest. This parishioner notice all the pails & containers around the rectory. The roof was leaking & this priest never said a word about it to anyone.
The surprise parishioner said to him that he couldn’t stay & live like that because the priest would get sick. The priest replied it’s a poor parish, that his parishioners did not have that much money & they needed their money to feed their little families. He would be alright.
Needless to say, this parishioner got a team of helpers & in no time they did fix this poor priest’s roof. My mother told me this priest was a very gentle, humble, holy man, & he was not interested in worldly goods.
Good Night!
Lina