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...
The church would like to think and indeed portray that they are being persecuted. In fact, they are merely irrelevant in the way most people think and lead their lives. This has been true for decades now.
ReplyDeleteI posit that irrelevancy, from the churches point of view, is an immeasurably worse fate than persecution. If the church wants to believe that they are being persecuted, if it makes them feel better about their irrelevancy, so be it. It isn't true, though. How are they being persecuted? Do you feel you are being persecuted, Tim. I suggest that you are simply being ignored.