It does exist and we Christians are on the receiving end from the homosexuals.

Hatred doesn't exist?

I didn't say that.

I'll be looking forward to your OP! Since you are a Thomas and Maritain fan and I am not, I doubt whether we'll ever agree on something. I'll try and read Maritain.

For sensible answers to your questions, read Maritain's very short book "St. Thomas and the Problem of Evil." Maybe I'll try to write an OP summarizing his insights.

Hatred doesn't exist? Ask Eich or the Memories Pizza owners.

Yes, we are hated and are being persecuted.

I know so.

Nice way to avoid the point.

What point was there to avoid? Hatred doesn't exist where you say it does because you say so.

We both know the vile hatred aimed at Christians exists

Every group is hated by some members of at least one other group. Christians are not the least bit special in that regard.

and seems to be gaining approval in the media.

Not so I've noticed.

Legal persecution is arriving and you are cheering.

You say so.

Yes, you most certainly did.

I mocked a certain collection of attitudes to suffering not the people who hold them.

I have no quarrel with you, Micheal. I like you, especially because you are witty, (even if it's usually at the Catholics expense ;) ) and you have always treated me with consideration.

But, on just the word of an Athiest, you not only caricatured Catholicism (just let poor people offer it up), you mocked an entire group of people you know nothing about, just because they are Catholic.

Nice way to avoid the point. We both know the vile hatred aimed at Christians exists and seems to be gaining approval in the media. Legal persecution is arriving and you are cheering.