It's Sunday, a time for you to contemplate your mortality, your maker, or
your what's left of your spirit.
If your first step is to go on Facebook to share your thoughts, please hold
on.
For the members of an as-yet unnamed church choir would like to sing to
you.
They'd like to sing of the perils of displaying your every minute and
splaying your every bikini-clad image all over modern society's version of the
parish notice board.
In a YouTube video that must be seen, heard and believed, this church choir
wants you to share this one thought: "Keep Yo' Business Off Of Facebook."
The video is of imperfect quality.
However, the sentiment has a transparent holiness to it.
The lead chorister sings of life not being about posting more pictures, so
that you feel like you're somehow winning.
He intones: "Those pictures that you post, you need to quit it because
you're doing the most."
The fight against self-obsession might never be won. There are too many
special interests involved.
There are people in this world who post their every image to Facebook.
There are people who, before they take their latest lover (about whom they
know far less than they should) to dinner, post: "Date Night! With Polly McLiar
@Herman Munster's Austrian restaurant."
To help you along the way, they even offer a map so that, perhaps, you can
wander in and admire them having a lovely time.
The poster of this gospel-based cry from the heart -- first uploaded a
month ago but now gaining some viral grip -- is conscious of the problem. He
explains that this is "a new Christian classic about the pitfalls of hubris and
lack of discretion in today's social media world."
Can I get an amen?
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