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...
Father Tim...thank you for posting this...I suspect many a good priest has had his life ruined as soon as the church started to make payments and people saw it as a way to make home ownership or retiremnet made easy...1 offending priest is 1 too many but i have never believed the number was what has been reported. May God bless the victims and the offending clergy and all the wonderful clergy who continue to pay daily for the sins of a few.
ReplyDeleteThis is such a sad story. We would like to believe that this will not happen again, but in today's world where financial gain is more important than the destruction of a man's good name, this will not be the last case we read about.
ReplyDeleteRest in peace Fr. Murphy, safe in the arms of Our Lord....prayers....