Facebook Comment Ambush
I love it. On Facebook right now, at least at Carthage, there’s been a recent surge of activity on account of the Jesus people on campus about how only 96% of teens will “stand up for Jesus.” How many things are wrong with the statement?
1. I’m not a teen. Fucker. I’m going to be 21 in a week. Perhaps you should double-check the birthdate of the person you’re posting to.
2. I don’t need to wear my faith on my sleeve and piss off the rest of the world. It’s an issue between myself and God. You catch more flies with honey, you get what I’m saying?
3. In marketing and PR, we talk about such a concept as a “soft sell.” Faith and religion, because of its intrinsically personal nature, is something that requires that soft sell. This is not a soft sell. It’s like, “Hello, my name is Mr. Club. Nice to meet you, Mr. Head.”
4. Chain letters are annoying. Period.
5. And, in the words of a certain Christian cynic, Jesus was plan B. Get over it.
But why should I be surprised? These are the same people who would tell me I’m damned to hell for any number of reasons. You pick ‘em. Because they believe in a God which is so limited, so restricted that it can be completely explained and related to by a mere human. The God I believe in, though, is capable of anything. And it is disrespectful, degrading and detestable to attempt to explain away the works God can do.
What would the world be like without radical, right-wing “Christians?” There’d be much less to pick on, that’s for sure.
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Daniel Ross-Jones serves as Minister for Youth & Young Adults at First Congregational Church of Palo Alto, United Church of Christ. Living in the San Francisco Bay Area for a time still measured in months, he is frequently getting lost and discovering treasures of a landscape very different from his Upper Midwestern roots. Green Jello Hotdish is a blog exploring the intersections of his days. 
