Battle of the Twitter Gods
Somebody’s a big ole’ false idol over on Twitter. If you recall we introduced you to almightygod, the Lord’s Twitter feed, earlier this fall. Almighty God has recently been joined on the social media scene by HolyGod, a rival Big Guy with the exact same avatar! Holy God, location: everywhere, has 192 followers already.
almightygod is a little testy at the sudden appearance of this (possibly real) HolyGod. almightygod, location: Heaven, still has 5 times the followers and has issued such ominous thunderclap-accompanied warnings as “Pay no attention to @HolyGod. I’m the real thing, he’s a fake” and “Thou shalt not bear false witness.” That last one is a commandment, people.
What to do with competing Gods? Now you know how the Romans felt when the Christians showed up, or what the Mormons experience when they see a can of Coke. Just the existence of that other possibility, that crack in your worldview, makes you wonder why you’re so attached to an idea in the first place.
If you’ve got no evidence either way, then the reality is the idea makes you feel better, which is different than being true.
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