![]() It features scorn and snark being dished out by so-called Christians who appear to believe that self-indulgent mockery and calumny expressed against other Christians is an effective witness for Christ (hint: it speaks nothing of Christ but volumes about them), or by other so-called Christians who have chosen the sniffing Pharisee as their evangelical model, over the imperfect-yet-penitent publicans that Christ hung around with.ĭespairing of all of it, I was about to shut down my feed yesterday when a colleague from Word on Fire posted a link to Dave Rubin’s latest video, entitled A Bishop and a Rabbi Discuss Religion, the Enlightenment, and Finding Meaning. Sadly, I’m talking about a corner mostly populated by people whose interests are religious. Look the other way, and watch the fumes of fussy exactitude choke the life out of charity until nothing can flourish except fury. Look in this direction, and it sputters with self-indulgent scorn and sarcasm, sparing none but the similarly-minded. That question has been nagging at me throughout Advent as I have found myself alternately disinterested in, or impatient with, what I read on Facebook and Twitter, where man’s search for meaning has stalled at the intersections of Snark and Outrage. That’s what all of us really want, isn’t it-to be seen and heard, our thoughts and feelings acknowledged and given support? Ideally, we’d prefer to receive it from someone who loves us, but we’ll take the Facebook facsimile if that’s all there is.īut is that really enough to nourish and sustain us? Are you fulfilled and happy, or do you have the sense that something is missing, and that you’re not entirely sure what that might be?Īre you feeling like the social media you have made so much a part of your life has become a meaningless yet addictive habit, a daily lather, rinse, repeat of a word-shampoo that adds no lustre to your thoughts or to your understanding, and serves only to help you feel seen and heard?
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