Comments on: If You *really* Love Jesus, CLICK and SHARE!!! (and other abominations) //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/10/if-you-really-love-jesus-click-share-and-other-abominations/ Faith and Family; Justice, Joy, Bread of Life Fri, 15 Aug 2014 16:28:16 +0000 hourly 1 //wordpress.com/ By: Bethany Pegors //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/10/if-you-really-love-jesus-click-share-and-other-abominations/#comment-5388 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 15:19:07 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4646#comment-5388 Political pictures or memes get me every time. I never see them from anyone else except my uber conservative Christian friends (although I’m not saying no one else posts those things,I just don’t see them).

It also irks me when people post passive aggressive Christian memes about modesty, purity, etc. — they won’t come right out and say what they believe, but they’ll certainly share a bunch of pictures that make it perfectly clear! The passive aggressive posts get me, too. For example, one woman posted, “Say it with me, leggings are not pants..leggings are not pants…”

*sigh*

LOVE this post, btw! Way to bring those passive aggressive tendencies out in the open.

]]> By: dad //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/10/if-you-really-love-jesus-click-share-and-other-abominations/#comment-5371 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 15:00:15 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4646#comment-5371 Yeah, I just love those non- or quasi- scriptural spiritual word salads. Presumably they’re trying to be deep, but to these veteran ears it sometimes sounds more like a tab or two of acid.

Not to put too fine a point on it.

]]> By: joannaholman //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/10/if-you-really-love-jesus-click-share-and-other-abominations/#comment-5370 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 12:40:35 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4646#comment-5370 A few that come to mind:
– Posting about dating Jesus (or similar sentiments)
– Shallow and flippant facebook status/tweet length responses to ethical and theological issues that are entirely too complicated to be dealt with without a great deal of thought, nuance and grace.
– Statements that use lots of religious sounding words but don’t cite any scripture or even seem to connect much with biblical teaching eg. Jesus wants to anoint you with a supernatural anointing of breakthrough so you can fulfil your destiny by walking in righteous kingdom authority! (not an actual tweet, but roughly like how some people I know tweet.
– Long strings of completely decontextualised quotes/comments from a Christian conference they are at. It can be really interesting to read about a few of the main things people are learning, but when your news feed gets filled with dozens of quotes and comments that make no sense if you aren’t there it gets annoying.

]]> By: dad //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/10/if-you-really-love-jesus-click-share-and-other-abominations/#comment-5369 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:28:04 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4646#comment-5369 Thou shalt not use the Name of thy Lord and Savior as a tool for passive/aggressive manipulation…

]]> By: dad //rachelmariestone.com/2013/07/10/if-you-really-love-jesus-click-share-and-other-abominations/#comment-5368 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 11:19:23 +0000 //rachelmariestone.com/?p=4646#comment-5368 I heartily agreed with Polly’s pointed (and funny!) comment yesterday. For me one of the best things about social media is that my email is no longer cluttered with this sort of stuff. I used to be deluged with “pass this on otherwise we’ll all know you’re a cold-hearted heretical un-American” messages; now they’re all on FB.

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