Is God Your Friend?

Thank you www.OutThere-byGeorge.com for permission to use this great cartoon!

Some people just aren't comfortable embracing social media. Many see it as a waste of time while others are hesitant to post anything that promises to leave indelible impressions in such a public forum. Perhaps these people would find comfort and confidence in knowing that social media is not inherently bad and that even God has a Facebook page. In fact, he has several of them. If it's good enough for God, it has to be good enough for the rest of us.

But there are a few things I find perplexing. Even though God is 'all knowing' he seems to not know that Facebook frowns on people creating multiple accounts. And on some of these accounts he speaks of himself in the third person (I thought only star athletes did that). It should be comforting to us common folk to know that God has been known to make spelling and grammar errors too. For that I willingly offer up forgiveness, as I'm guessing English isn't his first language.  

I was struck by a sense of profound disappointment when I learned that God is running popularity contests. I was so disheartened when I read this post on one of his pages: "What should we pray for next? Comment below with your requests. The one with the most "Likes" will be selected!" While it's comforting to know that God is open to prayer requests, I'm dismayed by the realization that only the popular ones will win. Who do we turn to for the ones that lose? It's kind of like reality TV infiltrating our petitions, tune in tomorrow to see which troublesome cause survives to the next prayer round.

And another thing, why is it that even though God has collected millions of likes on his various pages, he hasn't engaged socially by liking and poking anybody in return? Could it be God, or is it Facebook that keeps him from commenting directly on our walls? I'm sure they could both expect that if it were to happen, we'd be so startled we'd cancel our accounts and never log-in again. That would be a really bad thing especially as Facebook gets closer to their long-awaited IPO.

I wish God would 'like' this blog, the viral effect of that small action would boost the readership and page rank and be greatly appreciated. I'd pray for it, but with all the natural disasters, famine and disease in the world, it just seems so wrong to try to elicit those valuable 'likes' for such a selfish purpose.

The more I think about it, things just don't add up. In fact drawing from my beliefs and the evidence, I'm convinced these Facebook accounts weren't created by God at all. That can mean only one thing - God's identity has been stolen! That has to be the ultimate injustice, claiming to be God and doling out pearls of wisdom on his behalf to the millions of innocents who had no idea they weren't interacting with the real Supreme Being. To the brave souls who've had the courage to masquerade as God, I've only got one thing to say:

OMG! When the time comes for you to approach the pearly gates, you're going to have some 'splaining to do!

And to those of you who ignore all the warnings about revealing too much personal information, just think about this: If God's identity can be assumed, who in God's name can help the rest of us?

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