So now the Pope has a Twitter account. So far, it’s gone about how you’d expect.
Sorry, but as a founding member of the Closet Luddite Society, I see no value whatever in tweeting, unless you’re practicing the mating call of the scarlet tanager. It’s only real purpose is to further degrade the language, inhibit real human communication, numb our intellects, attenuate our already limited attention spans, and let people shoot their mouths off with great rapidity.
With all due respect to His Holiness, nobody, and I mean nobody, is that interesting all the damn time. Take this blog for instance…anyway…
Yes, of course, I get what he’s trying to do, and I laud him for it. But isn’t there a limit to the whole trying-to-be-hip-in-order-to-reach-the-masses bit? St. Paul said, “I have become all things to all men so that by all possible means I might save some.”¹ But does that extend to dumbing down the Gospel so it fits on a smartphone text screen? Especially with all the attendant smart-assery that inevitably follows the original tweet?
I’m conflicted.
Oh well, with God all things are possible, even preaching the Good News on Twitter.
¹1 Cor 9:22 NIV
