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...
I think there is a big difference in perception over who are the bad guys in the Vatileaks scandals.
ReplyDeleteSome think that the bad guys are unfaithful servants. Some think the bad guys are corrupt churchmen. Some think that this is the result of feuding between different factions of churchmen, each seeking to discredit the other.
Probably all of these things are true.
The question you have to ask is whether or not there are enough good churchmen left to make the institution worth salvaging and whether it is really worthy enough in God's eyes to be allowed to continue or an abomination that needs to be discarded..