Yesterday's discussion in The Theologian's Cafe focussed on whether xanga relationships helped or hindered real life relationships. Taking the discussion one step further, I began to wonder if God had sent a Jesus or Muhammad or Buddha to us today, would they have had a xanga? Would they have used their xanga to share their message? How would they have promoted their xanga?
Let's face it. Not too many of us nowadays make our living as fishermen. We don't walk or ride the back of an ass to journey to our place of worship. We don't challenge ourselves spiritually by going to the river bank to repent at the hands of a guy who eats locusts and wears camel skin. Quite frankly, folks back then couldn't possibly have imagined life as we know it today with blogs, cell phones and text messaging. Yet our spiritual quest takes us back to such a time and place to try to figure out what we are to do in the day and age in which we find ourselves.
I'd like to pose a series of questions based on this general theme...
If Jesus, Muhammad or Buddha walked among us today, would they have a xanga to help promote their teachings and their path? How would they promote their xanga? Would anyone notice? What today would trouble them the most? In a nutshell, what would their message be?
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