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...
Almost all current Catholics, even in the much vaunted growing Catholic communities of the Southern Hemisphere, differ with the Vatican doctrine and dogma in important ways. The "new evangelization" is a last ditch attempt to bring them back into the fold.
ReplyDeleteWon't work. All those Genies won't fit into the lamp. If it could be done, at least some highly effective priests, somewhere, would already be doing it. Their flocks would boast improbably large families, who come to mass all the time, thirst mightily for all of the sacraments, present Mother Church with an endless stream of young, virile, heterosexual vocations, both male and female, willing to spend lives of chaste, selfless devotion to Jesus, in joyful poverty. Divorce, contraception, abortion, open, sexually active homosexuality, women priests, married priests, would not be issues of contention in the venues shepherded by these highly effective priests. It's not happening so far but maybe Tim Dolan and the Pope know something the rest of us don't. I hope so, Tim. Catholics deserve a church they can believe in again. It's been so long and they've had to make do with so little support and care from their clergy.