Categories: uncategorized
Tags: boasting, blessings, netiquette
Date: 24 September 2009 15:47:52
Shouldn't it be officially seen as bad manners to gloat on Facebook or Twitter (or indeed in a blog) about what a wonderful time you are having, and how God is blessing you in all sorts of ways (which of course demonstrates that you must be especially in God's favour)? Surely it is the online equivalent of those irritating Christmas letters all about how your toddler has just reached Grade 8 violin and your teenager is crocheting her own PhD? I do confess that I am in the habit of sending an irritating Christmas letter myself, but I make a particular effort (and let's face it, I don't have to try too hard) to be honest in it about the everyday struggles and heavily disguised blessings. And I trust I have never been guilty of online religious boasting. At which point one of you will probably look in my archive and prove me wrong.