“Most
of the evil in this world is done by people with good intentions.”
-T.S.
Eliot
Everyone
is entitled to their opinion but, as we all know, sometimes other
people think your opinion is stupid. Yet I am amazed at how
many people, through social media, share their opinion and do so in a
superfluous, ignorant way.
Perhaps
it's the amount of information we are showered with in this digital
age where news never stops from all corners of the globe. Maybe we
feel we have to react to it all and therefore spewing our concerns or
raising the alarm via facebook or twitter is the easiest way to get
our point across.
But
it's the way in which we do it that concerns me. We've become, in
large part, a people who do not speak for ourselves anymore. We
don't think through issues and read the backlogs, search through the
history of things that are relevant to the concerns being raised. We
become intellectually lazy and often dishonest by posting a video,
posting a link, putting a quote up or linking a news story we heard
somewhere that confirms what we always thought, “Aha! I knew it”
I've
been just as guilty of this as anyone. But listen, as intelligent
people. As people who have a belief system, if you are a follower of
Christ. Do everyone a favor and read some of the issues, research
the concerns you have before putting up a snide remark, a snippet of
testimony, a quote removed from something you never read or listened
to.
Because
your not helping the idea that Christians are against intelligent
arguments and conversation when your social media reflects the
prowess of a group of Jr. High boys doing....well much of anything.
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