"Vitriol infests Rick Warren family’s grief"
“Either there is no God, or God doesn’t listen to Rick Warren, despite all the money Rick has made off of selling false hope to desperate people,” one poster from Cincinnati wrote in to USA Today.
In another comment, the same poster counsels Warren to “abandon primitive superstitions and accept the universe for what it is — a place that is utterly indifferent to us.”
Some rush to add pain to the Warrens’ world because, in their view, he did not show sufficient compassion for the unremitting pain suffered by gay youths rejected by parents and peers. They were outraged when Warren took a political stand for Proposition 8, which overturned legal same-sex marriage in California in 2008 and is now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Others have appointed themselves 140-character theologians in a debate over whether someone once saved can lose his or her salvation if suicide is against God’s law. These posters, rather than waiting for Judgment Day, have ruled for hell.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/vitriol-infests-rick-warren-familys-grief/2013/04/08/d214c080-a071-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html
As religion writer Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans notes on her Facebook page: "These commenters, like Milton's Satan, bring Hell with them everywhere they go."
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