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...
First, parents get to decide what to expose their children to or not. This is like the first rule of you Catholics who are always blathering on about your religious freedom and how it's being infringed upon. Second, this priest should keep his yap shut about what does and does not go on in the confessional. Those that do the confessing can choose whether or not to disclose what went on in there but not priests. I know from things other priests have said to me that the sanctity of the confessional is not kept.
ReplyDeleteMoe: I actually agree with you... except for your last line. I've never heard a priest violate the seal of the confessional. The priest in this story didn't either since he's sharing something that he says he often has heard over the years of his priesthood therefore while he may be imprudent in sharing as he has, he isn't violating the seal since no one can be identified.
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