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...
We always need someone to blame in any crisis, it's a normal human reaction. In a horrific tragedy such as this one and where the killer is also dead there is no living being to blame. The first place God is ‘at times like these’ is precisely there - the place of blame - He knows our needs.
ReplyDeleteIf we watch closely in the days to come in the aftermath it will become obvious where He is and has been through it all.
People like Etty Hellisum in the Nazi prison camps and people like the teacher in this awful massacre who sacrificed her life to save the children give some clues to answer this question.