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...
Excellent stuff Father.
ReplyDeleteI added some of my own thoughts and reposted it.
http://freethroughtruth.blogspot.com/2010/08/men-be-men-not-boys.html
God Bless You
Michael
I do have a Catholic marriage of over 37 years. I do not know what it is to have my husband pray with me at home. He just doesn't do it, even though now and then I do ask him to pray with me.
ReplyDeleteI was the one who taught my children to pray and to prepare them to receive the sacraments. My husband did not interfered.
It was their mother our children saw at prayer. Eventually, once the children got older they still went to church but sadly they also witness their father not praying at home. I would still invite my children to pray with me but they would slowly respond: 'no Mom, but thanks for asking.'
My husband and I always went to church for Sunday Mass. To me the biggest prayer I have with my husband is the Mass.
There are times when we are in bed and in each other arms I pray an Our Father or at times a decade of the Rosary. Sometimes he will ask me why am I smiling? I tell him I love him which is the truth but I leave out the prayer stuff. I do not want to take the chance he may not want to touch me. I do not see it as making a fool of him but sadly I know that is the way he would see it.
I thank God for my husband.
My husband never told me this before. This year on our wedding anniversary he said if he had to do it all over again he would still have married me.
Now that is a treasure I will always carry in my heart.
I see him as my perfect cross and I'm his perfect cross, but please, do not tell him that. {smiling}
Lina