An Example of How the World Hates Us...

A few people were "confused" about what I meant the other day when I posted that "the world hates you." They accused me of being "overly-emotional," exaggerating, and taking that verse "out of context."
I don't think any of those are true...in fact I think that I held back on that post more than I should of. THE WORLD HATES CATHOLICS. By world, I mean our culture, things and people "of this world." It is impossible for a culture that values things like abortion, gay-unions, contraception, wealth, relativism, and ideologues, to accept or understand Catholicism. Don't believe me?

Here is an example:

But here’s what I really meant: because I am a faithful Catholic, who believes what the Church teaches (and has taught for over two thousand years) – many people today consider me to be a bigot, and would consider my children to be bigots if they grew up to inherit my (Catholic) views on the nature of human sexuality and the meaning of marriage. I wrote nothing mean or hateful in my original post, yet the vast majority of negative comments I have received are obviously hateful (foul language, intimations about my personal morality, family history, etc).


Evidently, some people think that if someone considers you to be a hater, it’s okay to hate you back … and much more viciously.

This quote is from a post by Thomas Peters of American Papist. One of his posts was linked to a pretty prominent blogger, Andrew Sullivan, and because of this he received a bunch of exposure, albeit it the kind of exposure that brings floods of hate-mail to his inbox. What was so "hateful" about his original post?
This quote of course:

I’ve remarked to friends that I think DC would be a hard place to raise kids. I’m beginning to think that’s more and more the case, especially if you live near the Macy’s.

I guess he is hateful to politicians, criminals, the city, federal districts, the east coast, and cherry blossoms. I mean.. can you believe the hate he spews in that statement? [sarcastic eyeroll]. So readers, this is what I mean by: The WORLD HATES YOU... because it does.