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...
There is no question that Christians and universities founded by Christians in the West played a major role in the foundation of modern science (which I date to the experimental techniques of Bacon and Galileo) but increasingly the practitioners of science are non Christian or people of no religion.
ReplyDeleteIf every book and every bit of knowledge were to be wiped off the Earth, give humans a few thousand years and we'd have the atomic theory again, the concept of evolution and gravity, but the story of the talking snake in the garden would be gone.
Rationalis1, you mean Eve would not be listening? And NO ORIGINAL SIN? GREAT, that would be good news for humankind.
ReplyDeleteHave a good day!
Cliff