Revealing too much.
Sometimes when we touch…
The honesty is too much. (I hated that song.) Anyway - with all the blogs, Youtube, Facebook, and religious TV shows, many of us tend to reveal way too much about ourselves. I’ve written revealing posts about myself, although I eventually take most of them down because I realize they are imprudent and indiscreet - and I want everyone to like me.
I have sometimes referred to significant events involving my conversion in a few posts, yet I’ve never written an entire story on it. Mainly because I’m no saint. Conversion stories can mislead people into believing the convert should be a little better for the experience, after returning to the practice of the faith that is. A conversion is just a start - not the finished project. For me, the best conversion stories are about dead people - people like Matt Talbot, converted, lived like a saint, died. Now that’s a story worth telling.
Today people reveal far too much about their personal life. Such as the recent case of the young, everyone-knew-he-was-gay-anyway priest who came out during Mass last weekend. First, it was so inappropriate to do it during Mass - see, that is where homilies can go off the deep end - not that it wasn’t interesting mind you. But Fr. Hotstuff politicized the Mass, and told everyone more than anyone needs to know about his private life, and scandalized people in the process. You know - if a guy is a celibate, living chastely, why does he have to announce his sexual preference? Isn’t he supposed to be vowed to ED for the rest of his life anyway?
Then there is Fr. Francis and the EWTN announcement. Too much information. Did we need to be told he fell in love with a widow? (How many of us started to wonder if the widow was Courtney Love? See, we don’t have to go there.) Although, maybe all the details were revealed to forestall a bigger scandal. Since it was made public, I posted about it - when you make a public statement, you are asking for a public discussion - and it isn’t always going to be praise.
Something for bloggers to think about when they write their tell-all posts.
BTW - I’m still sick and probably dying from my cold. But don’t worry. :)
