Turtles helping turtles, it’s a beautiful thing
I found my self watching this YouTube video of a turtle helping another turtle get turned back over after getting stuck up side down. Yes I know they are actually not turtles but are in fact tortoises, for the sake of my fingers I will hereto fourth refer to them by the slightly shorter term ‘turtle’; and let’s be honest you and I both call everything that looks like a turtle a turtle; but I digress. Turtles aren’t known for their speed, so as this event slowly progressed on the video I filled the time by scanning through the comments below on YouTube. I noticed two things; one that was encouraging and one that was infuriating.
#1 | Even in a silly video of a turtle turning over a turtle a spiritual conversation happened
People were pointing at the fact that we need each other and that some ‘creator’ must have given the turtles some kind of instinct. The video stirred up feelings of solidarity that are ingrained in all of us and it was beautiful…in a YouTube sort of way. People are willing to engage in spiritual conversation online, there’s opportunity there if we are real and honest….and careful.
#2 | Even in a silly video of a turtle turning over a turtle Christians found a way to be jackasses
At some point the E word was dropped (evolution) and it brought out the hellfire from a few Christians who were obviously placed on this earth ‘for such a time as this’ to flame some poor person in a public forum and win huge God points. Someone give that guy a badge or something!
People, the story is so much bigger than that tiny little interaction on a website. Yet, that tiny little interaction will set whom ever you were trying to ‘convert’ back years on what could potentially be a spiritual journey towards God. Let’s get on the same page folks.
