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...
Here's the deal with this. Conservative politicians, who have a very shaky coalition in the US made up of religious fanatics, gun nuts, war mongers and laissez faire capitalist interests, have to show support to all their constituency groups, even though most of them have no sympathy for the causes they support. This is especially true for the religious fanaticsm who unlike the gun nits, war mongers and greedy capitalists have not won a single battle in the culture wars. They know that this law will be struck down as blatantly unconstitutional, no harm, no foul.
ReplyDeleteThe main thing these efforts at striking down Roe achieve is making the majority of the populace sick of the continuing culture wars and unsympathetic to those that fight them. Gross changes in the demographic of the US and Canada in the form of a younger population that is both less attendant upon institutional religious indoctrination and more tolerant of lifestyle diversity and individual rights within the community will make make many of the current battles in the culture wars meaningless in relatively few years. The new battles are going to be fought in territory even more terrifying and alien to the institutional church.
I agree the younger generation is less attendant upon religious indoctrination. Its been supplanted by a secular indoctrination of moral relativism and narcissism. What a bright future indeed.
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