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Sometimes on Twitter I will post: “Twitter: to educate, entertain and annoy”. The social media platform is excellent for reproducing or creating thought provoking, punchy and pithy statements. Unfortunately a tweet is limited. Ambiguities proliferate. Misunderstandings abound. This is amplified by the fact that Twitter reaches a global audience. This is like flying an airplane banner across the skies of a huge city. Everyone can read it and therefore everyone will bring their own interpretation to it.
Over the years my activity on Twitter has gotten me into some hot water. I’ve been accused of being too conservative and too liberal. I’ve been called a racist, a homophobe, a Protestant, a MAGA priest. Letters have been sent to my bishop confirming the existence of tattletale Catholics–crybaby bullies who run to Daddy telling him to spank their naughty sibling.
Yesterday I tweeted, “Catholics talk too much about the Church and not enough about the gospel.” On the offensive scale (with 10 being horrible, horrific and horrendous and 1 being innocuous and obvious) I would have thought this was somewhere around 1.3. However, folks jumped in assuming I was dissing the church in favor of Our Lord–that I was rejecting Catholic doctrine and “Didn’t I know that the church and the gospel cannot be separated???!!!”
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Over the years my activity on Twitter has gotten me into some hot water. I’ve been accused of being too conservative and too liberal. I’ve been called a racist, a homophobe, a Protestant, a MAGA priest. Letters have been sent to my bishop confirming the existence of tattletale Catholics–crybaby bullies who run to Daddy telling him to spank their naughty sibling.
Yesterday I tweeted, “Catholics talk too much about the Church and not enough about the gospel.” On the offensive scale (with 10 being horrible, horrific and horrendous and 1 being innocuous and obvious) I would have thought this was somewhere around 1.3. However, folks jumped in assuming I was dissing the church in favor of Our Lord–that I was rejecting Catholic doctrine and “Didn’t I know that the church and the gospel cannot be separated???!!!”
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Gospel Talk and Church Talk | Fr. Dwight Longenecker
Sometimes on Twitter I will post: "Twitter: to educate, entertain and annoy". The social media platform is excellent for reproducing or creating thought provoking, punchy and pithy statements. Unfortunately a tweet is limited. Ambiguities proliferate. Misunderstandings abound. This is amplified...
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