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So I didn't update yesterday. There were a million things I was going to write about: complaints, giggles, my response to complaints. But I didn't. Maybe it's better; I was feeling a little fiery yesterday and probably wouldn't have given much a fair treatment. I was saddened yesterday when I saw the facebook profile of a girl whom I don't know. She was a Christian, and had two status messages (total) about Jesus. And people were incredibly rude to her - not getting their point out rude, but tearing her down rude. Some people were just cynical, which was dumb but acceptable I guess, but after one person had ripped into her another was all "yeah you go..." like it was some sort of sport or something. On the second status message there was a girl saying "stop with all this jesus crap it's getting annoying nobody cares" because, you know, clearly we're not allowed to say what we want in our status messages. Why is the girl friends with people like this? And a further question: if they dislike Christ and Christianity so much, why are they friends with a Christian on facebook? I do not understand. I have extremist atheist facebook friends who will post their views, and I will post my views, and we're civil enough to not try and argue it out over facebook. What's going on? One of the comments was along the lines of "yeah thanks Jesus for all the starving children in the world", a sentiment shared by the Jesus All About Lies campaign. I've been trying tofollow that campaign as it claims to promote reason but mostly it's advocates just whinge about the advertisements, rather than show the supposed flaws in Christianity they claim to. But I have a response to that criticism, regardless of whether anyone will hear it, and a call to action: Jesus showed time and time again, whilst he was on earth, that he is more concerned with eternal matters (purity, salvation) than temporal matters (sickness, poverty). Of course those things matter, and they have been matters that God has left US to be caretakers of since before Jesus was born - so how does it make sense to blame Jesus for it? If anybody wants to complain about the starving children in the world: well, I ask, are you doing anything about it? If so, great! Why not try to get more people on board? It will be much more productive than whinging. And if you aren't doing anything about it - how can you dare to blame someone else for a situation you're doing nothing to fix? Post a comment in response: |
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