Thursday, February 17, 2011

offensively indifferent

i love movies. a lot. and as a movie lover, i tend to have favourite actors and actresses. as a result, i read a significant amount of material pertaining to these people and their movies. often times this is in the form of blogs and online articles, which allow the readers to comment. more often than not, the comments are entirely unintelligent and useless because people are stupid. especially people who don't appreciate the artistic work that goes into making a movie and only critique it based on the level of entertainment that it afforded them.
but i digress. suffice to say, even when the comments were clearly written by ignorant movie watchers, i'll get offended when they insult one of my actors or actresses (because they are MINE, after all). as i was thinking about this the other day, something suddenly hit me; do i feel the same way when people slam Jesus as i do when they slam an actor i like?
this was a very sobering thought. i'd like to say that i do, but that's not true all of the time. if i'm in a conversation with someone and they say "ughhhh, i hate gwyneth paltrow" i'll immediately jump to her defense. but if someone takes the Lord's name in vain, i practically don't even notice.
my culture has numbed me to the point of indifference. may God give me grace to begin to feel again.

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