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 American religious right is not dead, most of the people that comprised it three decades ago are though. The rest of them are old and getting older all the time. Younger people, even those who are evangelical Christians have no time for this kind of blatant politics, comprised of reactionary hate, fear and xenophobia.
ReplyDeleteThere will always be groups of deluded souls, usually of late middle age and older, pining away for the good old days. The good old days in some future time will be, surprise, surprise, today and will have been no better than the supposed good, old days of earlier times were. La-De-Dah!