So I am out with my family for Father’s Day and we passed a church who had:
“What’s your favorite Bible verse? Post it on our Facebook.”
And it got me to wondering how they would react if someone started posting all of the verses from their storybook that specifically call out the behavior of modern Christians. All the ones about welcoming immigrants and providing shelter and care for the poor, or deriding capitalism. Wonder what would happen if people did that en masse? I almost want to write a bot to go through and do it.
I am reminded of the Military Voices Initiative in which the US Army encouraged people to share their best army experiences on (Pre-X) Twitter. Incoming tweets told tales like My commanding officer hosed me so I’d have to serve a full eight year term but wouldn’t get my college fund or I was serial raped by four guys in my unit and when I tried to report it I was given a general discharge.
General Discharge is the name of my cover band. It’s mostly big brass covers of Sex Pistols songs.
Oh it’s so much much better than that though. They titled a Facebook post, “How has military service impacted your life?”
They got everything from gold star families cursing them to rape stories. Completely backfired.