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...
And thank reason they refused. This isn't the same. I would guarantee that not one of those bakeries would refuse to bake a cake for a heterosexual couple. What they refused was a hateful statement. As a comparison no Catholic bakery I know of would refuse to make a cake for a mixed race marriage. They would even put a mixed race bride and groom on the top. But I hope everyone would reject a cake that said Mix race marriages are wrong. If that analogy is too severe subtitute the message "Mixed faith message are wrong"
ReplyDeleteIt would hope that "non-gay"bakeries would refuse that messages as well.