What would Jesus blog?
Posted by Matthew on Monday May 3, 2004 @04:53PM
from the guess-who's-going-to-hell dept.
Matthew writes: They are usually titled something like “God’s Perfect Timing”, and the generally start something like this:
“On Thursday, October 16, 2003, I received a phone call from my sister in Hawaii. At the time, I was at work at the Hospital in Dallas, Texas. My sister sounded hysterical and said that my mom was at the hospital dying. My heart sank and I asked my sister to tell me what happened. My sister, who is a nurse, mentioned an ‘aortic dissection’ and that my mom had to be taken to the emergency room. As a physician, I knew aortic dissections were often fatal.” They go on for another 2500 words or so, and mom always winds up living in the end.
The mystery is why they get submitted to SlashNOT, considering that SlashNOT is a tech parody site that tries to avoid religion as a topic. But, fearing eternal damnation, I’ve also been loath to simply delete them. So they pile up in the administrative inbox, stuck in a digital limbo between submission and publication, damned to wait for armature-ageddon, when the server’s hard disk fails. But I always felt vaguely unsettled about the situation.
And so I said to myself, “What would Jesus Blog?“
And a still, small voice came to me and said “Seek and ye shall find. Ask, and it shall be given unto thee. Google, and ye shall be feeling lucky.” In a flash of inspiration, I realized that I could repost all these submissions on blogs appropriate to the topic.
A weight has been lifted from me for the first time since Michael and I started SlashNOT. I feel like I’ve been given a new chance–a new life. And now I’d like to invite all of you to post your testimonies there. And not here.