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...
It takes much more courage for any Catholic to stand up against the powers of the church and to disturb the established ideological order. It has become abundantly clear to most of us ’sheeple’ that we have for a lifetime been receiving instruction and spiritual ‘guidance’ from - in large part- , pedophiles , pedophile enablers , criminals and hypocrites- not to mention the egocentric notion of the transcendent. If we don’t have one of these telling us what Jesus Christ says or where Jesus Christ is then we can’t know…. Right? Whoever fails to question whether such an institution can be a force for good does so from an attitude which defies human nature. For those the metaphor ‘sheep’ has become concretized and no longer fits as well as perhaps ‘ostrich’ does.
ReplyDeleteThe campaign to create warriors out of individual (Catholic people) is ,thankfully, a lame one. The church no longer has the external seductive power (spiritual or otherwise) it once had. Apparently the ones seduced by power for the most part now are those wielding it.
If what I say is false ,then that’s because I don’t know the truth. If what I say is true, then that’s because it doesn’t come from me.