The new Ten Commandments for Christian bloggers distilled: “You can still be boring but only politely”
I have to say that I thank God daily that He did not make me in the image of a Christian blogger – or I would do so, if I weren’t an ungrateful, agnostic so-and-so.
Anyway, it would seem that being a blogging Godhead ain’t all that easy, these days:
“Alarmed by the extent to which religious blogs can descend into vitriol, senior evangelical clergy are calling on bloggers to obey a new set of the Ten Commandments aimed at delivering “God bloggers” from the temptations of the blogosphere.
Bloggers are commanded to honour their fellow bloggers and not to get too upset by their mistakes. They shall not murder the reputation of another blogger, shall not give false testimony against a fellow blogger and shall not steal the blog content of another. Bloggers are also told to be content with their own creation and not to covet their neighbour’s blog ranking.”
Which all sounds a bit dire, to be honest.
I mean, I’m all for civil behaviour and all that – and I will smite and remove any comment from my blog that refuses to play nice – but you wouldn’t want the blogosphere to resemble a Roman Catholic prayer meeting or a Church of England jumbles sale.
In other words, most bloggers and blog readers would prefer a Boston tea party to its much tamer, Anglican cousin.
Anyway, I do think it’s a bit much that, as a Christian blogger, you’re not even allowed to covet your neighbour’s blog ranking.
What else would there be left to covet?
For verily, I tell thee, it is virtually impossible to covet a blogger’s wife, or, when it comes to it, a blogger’s life – for anyone who ever spent some time in blogland knows that the vast majority of bloggers out there don’t have either of those two commodities.
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