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...
St Thomas Aquinas said that " God creates evil insofar as it is attached to good."
ReplyDeleteFrom his message it appears to me that Fr. Ron's God has sacrificed His only son to save the saints.This sounds like a God who say's "if you change I will love you" or " if you love me I will love you".It is a vision of God in this world seen from this world.
God became human in order to break down the barriers that prevent us from seeing the world within. Jesus leads us gently to the Lazarus within to where amidst the stench of decay and death He resides and it is there that He awaits to greet us to lead us back out again into a world with a newly discovered love,light and vision.
In the capacity of the human intellect we may begin to understand certain things about truth and about love but in the capacity and 'silence'of the human heart we can immerse ourselves into them. It is through the ego defying descent into the dark and pain that we become united and enlightned to the essence of life itself (I AM) within ourselves and in others.