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You Have No Right To Recommend God To Me Online
When I open a platform in which I am a member, I do not expect exhortations to read articles about accepting “Him.”
Yesterday, I clicked in to Medium and facing squarely smack in the “Recommended For You” section was an article entitled “Answer His Call.”
There are so many things wrong with this, that I am surprised no one picked it up and pulled back. In the piece, the author penned a poem about the majesty of God, and in her comments and Call to Action, she blatantly testified that we “unenlightened” embrace her God (or Jesus, hard to tell — the pronouns get confusing.)
Don’t get me wrong. I have no problem with her publishing in a Christian publication on Medium. I have no problem with people writing in more general publications about issues of religion, spirituality, their personal trials and transformations. To exclude that kind of writing would be to exclude a powerful human experience. But there is a difference between sharing reflections, and telling people about the way to believe, in whom to believe, with the implication that they’re hoping we’ll join their team.
This weekend I held my new Muslim nephew in my arms for the first time. For me it was a holy moment. But that doesn’t mean I want you to become Muslim. And I wouldn’t presume to put it in writing, with the verb…
