Let's play "Spot the Hater" - 

From Hot Air:

I’ve had this photo from The Daily Caller up in my browser for days, ever since Vince Coglianese ran it, as it just keeps popping back into my mind.  The photo comes from a speaking appearance by Belgian Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard in Brussels, which Femen targeted for a protest against what it calls “hate” and homophobia in the Catholic Church. 

I keep looking at this picture … and see hate, but not where Femen does.

And:

Normally, I wouldn’t post this picture, but there is no other way to tell this story.  One can disagree with the Catholic Church on same-sex marriage and the theology of sex on an intellectual and rhetorical level, and people can certainly protest those positions in a clear and unambiguous manner.  That’s not what is happening in this picture and others Vince has posted at The DC.  The angry, contorted faces of the protesters as they assault a man for speaking his mind — and who prays in response — provides a startling contrast, and a rather telling one about hatred.

Whether or not one agrees with Archbishop Leonard and the Church, his witness to the Christian response of love and prayer is powerful, and one I hope I can emulate when put to the test.

The picture is NSFW but makes the point.

I've been "debating" this incident for days on an atheist/Christian FB site. The consensus of the atheist "Humanists" is that (a) it's just a little water and (b) the Bishop represents EVIL and so deserved whatever he gets.

Welcome to the end of Western Civilization 2.0.

Western Civilization 3.0 will be filled with the love and joy and tolerance that only "Humanism" can produce.

Liberals constantly tell us that we can't blame 9/11 on Islam... ...

but then they turn around and blame mass shootings on the NRA.

Which is weird, when you think of it, because the 9/11 terrorists explicitly said that they were killing in the name of Islam, but none of the insane asshats who have shot up a mall or a school have ever done so in the name of the NRA.

Glen Reynolds writes:

MY USA TODAY COLUMN: Reflections on Newtown: A week after an American tragedy, what have we learned? Excerpt:

Is Hate A Liberal Value? A 20-year-old lunatic stole some guns and killed people. Who’s to blame? According to a lot of our supposedly rational and tolerant opinion leaders, it’s . . . the NRA, a civil-rights organization whose only crime was to oppose laws banning guns. (Ironically, it wasn’t even successful in Connecticut, which has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.)
The hatred was intense. One Rhode Island professor issued a call — later deleted — for NRA head Wayne LaPierre’s “head on a stick.” People like author Joyce Carol Oates and actress Marg Helgenberger wished for NRA members to be shot. So did Texas Democratic Party official John Cobarruvias, who also called the NRA a “terrorist organization,” and Texas Republican congressman Louis Gohmert a “terror baby.”
Nor were reporters, who are supposed to be neutral, much better. As The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg commented, “Reporters on my Twitter feed seem to hate the NRA more than anything else, ever. ”
Calling people murderers and wishing them to be shot sits oddly with claims to be against violence. The NRA — like the ACLU, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers or Planned Parenthood — exists to advocate policies its members want. It’s free speech. The group-hate directed at the NRA is ugly and says ugly things about those consumed by it.

Read the whole thing.
 

Let me add for the irony impaired, who may be quick to dub this post "repugnant," I don't think we should blame Islam for 9/11,  but I also don't think that the NRA is responsible for Newtown.

At some point, the individuals involved need to step up  and be responsible for their own evil.