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...
Cooperation is something that will not be achieved overnight. It is complicated and we also have 500 years of history to overcome.
ReplyDeletePrejudice and church loyalty are hard to integrate into the 21st century thinking. As one married to a Roman Catholic one has to overcome bigotry and bias almost on a daily basis. One of the difficulties comes from an unexpected wing of Catholicism, and that is the extreme right or fundamentalists who preach extreme loyalty to Catholicism, reminding all who would listen that the Catholic Church is the only way to heaven. Included are such statements as "there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church", or the "fullness of truth exists only in the Catholic Church."
It is complicated and not easy to obtain unity, especially when there is a lack of charity.
Cliff