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...
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ReplyDeleteBefore LifeSite "News" and others get too far down the road of demonizing the LGBT community for this act of vandalism, I would wait for the police investigation to be completed.
How do we know that the e-mail from this "Queer Activist" group was a real attribution of responsibility?
While I am not generally prone to conspiracy theories, I am also enough of a realist to recognize that in this "no holds barred culture war" it is not beyond impossible that the email was falsely attributed in order to implicate the LGBT community. Gasp...this is a possibility, no?
Additionally, the vandalizing of a bank in the same neighbourhood, on the same evening, suggests that these events were caused by the same prepetrators. Don't see why queer activist would target both a bank and a Church....looks more like random acts of vandalsim to me (if the events are indeed related).
Bottom line folks - if the LGBT community has a bone to pick with you, they will tend do it lawfully and in broad daylight and you will know why and what they are protesting.
Lastly, I took a look at the Mars Hill Church's website and quite frankly I find their anti-gay bias fairly vanilla and not very noteworthy. I fail to see why Mars Hill would attract such an extreme response.
Just my two cents.
Cheers...Martin