I’m Sorry…
Christ Is Risen!
In the midst of this holiday, I stumbled upon something that I couldn’t be any more in agreement with.
I think most people will agree that Christians have, at various times throughout history and throughout our own lives, been jerks. Well, it’s time to own up to that and time to apologize — for what it?s worth. Hopefully it will be worth something to someone. Here’s how you can do the same:
1. Check out the photos that have already been posted on Flickr.
2. Download and print the “Sorry We Christians Have Been Jerks” PDF file.
3. Write your name or city (or whatever) on the sign and take a picture of yourself holding it.
4. Upload your picture to Flickr and tag it with these tags:
sorry
sorryeverybody
sorrychristians (three separate tags – this is essential for the meme to work)
5. Tell all your friends and get them to do the same thing (hint: just write your city on the sign and pass it around when you?re with a bunch of people, and take pictures of each of them holding the sign)
6. Most importantly, mean it, and contribute to a global, lived-out apology to the world for the way Christians have acted (or failed to act.)
2 Responses to “I’m Sorry…”
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digenis says:
Christ is risen indeed! (or Voistinu voskres! as we say for the traditional Russian response to that…)
This is a great meme. A new sense of Christian apologetics, if you will… We ought to be ashamed of some of the things we slap Christ’s name on these days, and all throughout history for that matter.
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Couldn’t agree more. Seems like everyday we decide that there are more things that we can find in the Christian relgion that we can some how form into another barrier… as in US law, per se?
Why can’t we just look at each other with love instead of all of this hate and discrimination? And then to say it is the Christian thing to do? grr…. People, relgion, politics like that piss me off…. hmm hence the passion for it, eh?
*idea sparked for a new post*
