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...
Welcome back. Hope you had a good vacation and sorry to hear about your priest friend dying so unexpectedly.
ReplyDeleteHere are two links
How to spot a fake cardinal
http://i.imgur.com/cAlsbc5.jpg
We are going to die by Richard Dawkins
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOXMjCnKwb4
Rationalist: BEST vacation I've ever had! Great resort (Jewel Resort:Runaway Bay), great friends, and super weather (although no snow would have sufficed to be 'good'... 80+ and sun every day was exceptional!)
ReplyDeleteThe only thing that made me sad was snorkeling along the reef. When I was there 10 years ago it was teeming with life and color. Now it's almost empty of fish and the coral is dead or dying. I wish the fools who deny the effects of climate change could have had the same experience. Maybe it would open their eyes!
Still, this one point did nothing to dampen my enthusiasm for the place. I'm going to start saving right away so maybe it won't so long before I get to return again.
Fr. Tim
Sounds great. My wife's American so we can't go to Cuba but I've had friends come back and say how wonderful Cuba is. My nephew studies fish and has said the same about diving in the Carribean on reefs and don't get him going about our fish stocks. Alas what a mess we're making of this planet we've woken up in.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you had a good vacation and hope you're well rested for the big Easter week.
Speaking of climate change
ReplyDeletehttp://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/03/13/global_warming_new_study_shows_warming_is_faster_than_it_has_been_in_11.html
Very troubling.