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...
Ironic. - I argued on Fr. Longenecker's blog that the hospital was wrong under Catholic moral teaching to take this legal defense. Several Catholic posters (not Fr. Longenecker) defended the hospital and I was in the ironic position as an atheist stating Catholic moral teaching to practicing Catholics.
ReplyDeleteFrom the "win this case" stand its the obvious defence since our laws don't afford a fetus personhood in this country until its delivered. From a moral standpoint the view is downright immoral and ignorant of biological reality but has been the argument keeping killing the unborn legal for decades. Any lawyer wanting to win would play that card just as the abortion industry does to justify its killings but I agree a Catholic hospital should not make that morally and logically bankrupt argument nor should Catholics defend using it. We're called to rise above evil.
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