Stupid Facebook memes
Jan. 1st, 2020 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
plonqI would drop Facebook if it wasn't my primary contact with a number of good people. That said...
Ugh. I hate Facebook memes where - well, actually I could just stop at "Facebook memes", but some are worse than others.
I especially dislike the ones that people blithely forward on without giving even a whisper of critical thought to what they are forwarding.
I think I've complained about this old friend of the family who tracked me down on FB awhile back. 95% of what she posts are memes - mostly from Christian sites.
The one she posted today is just white text on a back background. It reads:
Judas had
the best pastor
the best leader
the best advisor
the best counselor (sic)
Yet he failed
The problem is not the leadership
or the church you go to.
If your attitude or character doesn't change
or your heart doesn't transform
You will always be the same
Notwithstanding that the two parts of these are only barely relevant to one another, there is another niggling little issue that is bothering me.
I have a response cued up, but I don't think I'll send it in the interests of maintaining family peace.
"yet he failed"
He failed at what, exactly? According to traditional Christian theology, his act of betrayal set in motion the events that led to Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection, which brought salvation to humanity.
How would we have measured his success, then?
Ugh. I hate Facebook memes where - well, actually I could just stop at "Facebook memes", but some are worse than others.
I especially dislike the ones that people blithely forward on without giving even a whisper of critical thought to what they are forwarding.
I think I've complained about this old friend of the family who tracked me down on FB awhile back. 95% of what she posts are memes - mostly from Christian sites.
The one she posted today is just white text on a back background. It reads:
Judas had
the best pastor
the best leader
the best advisor
the best counselor (sic)
Yet he failed
The problem is not the leadership
or the church you go to.
If your attitude or character doesn't change
or your heart doesn't transform
You will always be the same
Notwithstanding that the two parts of these are only barely relevant to one another, there is another niggling little issue that is bothering me.
I have a response cued up, but I don't think I'll send it in the interests of maintaining family peace.
"yet he failed"
He failed at what, exactly? According to traditional Christian theology, his act of betrayal set in motion the events that led to Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection, which brought salvation to humanity.
How would we have measured his success, then?
