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...
Pope John Paul II will go down in history as a great, lovable, very intelligent person.
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He did contribute a lot for peace and did alright in many areas as a Pontiff.
How can anyone forget the day he was shot. How amazing he face his shooter and forgave him.
He had charisma with people. He had this star quality about him.
I remember Billy Graham (TV Evangelist) quoting him several times. Mr. Graham had great respect for him.
As for me it will not change my life one bit when Pope John Paul II becomes a Saint.
I believe he could had done more for the clergy abuse victims. He is a close friend of Pope Benedict. This present day Pope Benedict is so intertwine in these abuse cases that I will not go further trying to explain myself because no matter what I say it will come across wrong to many Catholics.
No doubt he is already a Saint to Catholics around the world.
Catholics can use this good news to keep their mind off all those clergy abuse lawsuits they witness day in and day out.
i hope this clergy abuse which is HORRIFIC will not go on like the Crusades...2 Popes and numerous Bishops have apologized and we can see that measures have been taken to avoid this in future ...i hope it has not become about money and not forgiveness and we need always to be vigilant but also we to try and move past it
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