Questing for Faith in the Blogosphere

I've noticed that there seems to be a great deal more religious hate speech in the blogosphere than there is any true faith. I am disheartened by this, but understand that it's part of these particular times.

What's sort of got me going on this is a blog titled Cosmos, Liturgy, and Sex. Catchy title, but I was disheartened by what I was reading. I am glad that at least one of the authors is a theologian, but the overheated, hyperbolic rhetoric of some of the posts was the type and kind of stuff that alienated people from organized religion in the first place! To claim that one soul in mortal sin is worse that Hurricane Katrina not only diminishes the suffering of those who had to endure the ordeal of Katrina, but hyper-inflates the problem of sin and the soul. One individual can choose to be redeemed--the suffering of close to a million people caught in a natural disaster is a very, very different thing.

So, while I know there are wonderful people of faith and reason out there, like Paul who blogs at A Spiritual Diablog, I wonder just how many others are like him out there--or is the blogosphere besieged by people whose image of God is that of a being who will only save--or, more appropriately, have compassion for--people who hear one particular dogmatic voice and nothing else?

I fear this sort of human cruelty more than any Divine Retribution for my paltry sins. It causes so much needless suffering.