Well, it's official. The Raving Atheist has put NWW on his "Hate List." I can only take that to mean that he hates me for daring to question him. Must be pretty fragile, as most zealots are. I wonder how he defines tolerance?
Oh, it's like this: "A hate site is one which explicitly attacks a person or group based upon race, gender, sexual orientation or creed."
It certainly takes all kinds to make this world go around since I have never done such a thing. RA, meanwhile worships Sam Harris, who thinks merely being religious might be grounds for the death penalty.
Give me a friggin' break.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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