Via BigPulpit, here’s one Roman blogger who gets it.
As a stock Young Person on the Internet who is plugged in to both Catholic twitter and baseball twitter, I’m astounded at how frequently I see one tweet from, say, a fellow Padres fan ragging on a Dodgers fan, scroll down a few tweets, and see a fellow Catholic taking the exact same tone with a non-Catholic (or just as often, another Catholic). “Cope and seethe, loser” is a verbal bullet you’re just as likely to see fired on behalf of the New York Yankees as Jesus Christ.
It’s not new. All good advisors on salesmanship and missions, from St Paul to Dale Carnegie, have made the wildly obvious point. You don’t win sales or souls by emasculating and punching the potential customer. You win with respect.
Catholic sites are among the worst offenders. I’ve been smashed and ball-clipped repeatedly for asking simple questions in a polite way.
Young men are in deep trouble. Churches COULD help. Jobs are the real solution, but a church community can help you survive, and ideally help you to prepare for useful work.
Slimy anti-religious cults are taking full advantage of this situation. Bitcoin and Peterson and Tate offer RESPECT to unpopular men, and get money and power in return. Churches could be turning those young men toward a better life, and bringing in some tithes in return, but they OBVIOUSLY DON’T WANT TO BE CONTAMINATED BY UNCOOL PEOPLE. So fuck them.
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