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...
How exactly are North American Christians in danger of becoming like those under Islamic governance? And if they indeed they are, isn't that the point of Western secular states, to avoid a theocratic government that seeks to impose its arbitrary religious laws upon those whose religious beliefs are in conflict with it? Aren't the catholic 'Natural Laws" as arbitrary and hateful as Sharia law?
ReplyDeleteYou may practice your religious beliefs as you choose. You may not subjugate women and deny them their reproductive righte. You may not vilify, ostracize and discriminate against those with same sex attraction preference. You may not sodomize young boys given over to you for religious training and Catholic cultural inculcation and avoid civil penalty , as you continue to demand.
You are not in danger of losing your religious freedom, you are simply required to folow the rules that everyone else does