Don't Be a Christian Nerd
This kind of man is why so many DON'T want to become Christians.
Some weeks ago I posted a hilarious meme. It was this one.
The reel got crazy reach and loads of engagement. Soon enough, comments like these started coming thick and fast.
You can go to the post and take a look at them yourself. In summary, a lot of Christians felt the need to voice how that’s not the right way of converting people to Christianity. And don’t get me wrong, it’s a valid opinion (screaming and cursing in someone’s face isn’t the right way to do it), but the fact that people felt the need to comment the incredibly obvious on what’s clearly a funny meme shines light on broader and more important subjects.
A lot of people on our side have zero understanding of humor, and of humor as a tool for reaching more people. A meme is never to be taken seriously. Because it never is serious. It’s a joke, by definition. They fail to understand that not everything has to be solemn, and that memes don’t push people away from an ideology, but the overly serious and boring people that criticize memes do.
We have a lot of snowflakes in our ranks too. It’s baffling how people on our side of the sociopolitical and cultural discourse mock leftists for being “snowflakes” and yet don’t realize many on our side are exactly the same. If you are offended by a meme, regardless of what the meme says, you are part of the problem.
“Eh excuse me sir, did you know that you shouldn’t say “fuck”?”
“Actually you shouldn’t scream in people faces, this is not the way bro.”
“If you treat your cousin this way, you are not a real Christian sir.”
These people think I am literally Shia Labeouf on the set of Padre Pio. They think I recorded myself screaming in my cousin’s face and posted it online as a message of how you should treat atheists, literally.
The meme I posted is not why people don’t come to our side. The humorless, boring, soft men that get offended by memes and ugly words are. And yes, you shouldn’t curse. But is it really something so grave that you feel the need to voice your virtue in the comment section of a MEME?
What actually pushes people away from Christianity is not a meme from a movie, but exactly the kind of guy that would get offended by it. We are losing this war not because we speak too strongly, but because we don’t speak strongly enough. And we’re also losing because a huge number of men on our ranks are just as weak and whiny the worst leftist snowflakes.
I don’t expect reply guys to read this, but just in case some do, here’s what I want you to get out of this:
Don’t be a Christian nerd.
So many men reject the Truth that is Christianity because they look at it from the outside and see weak, soft, boring men. They are whiny, have zero sense of humor, and have this arrogant “holier than thou” attitude.
So others look from outside and think that’s what a Christian man is and are instantly repelled. And no wonder. The average Christian man is completely unappealing.
I call on you instead to be a real Christian on the things that matter. Not on petty fights like whether or not a funny, exaggerated meme is the right way to preach the Gospel (it isn’t).
Be a real Christian. Strong, courageous, virtuous. But also interesting, fun, experienced, generous, witty, humorous, abundant, wealthy.
Lift weights and become strong.
Train martial arts and become dangerous.
Be intolerant of all evil and speak against it.
Build businesses and make money.
Laugh and take light things lightly.
But take solemn things solemnly.
Travel, gather experiences and tell stories.
Create meaningful art. Make jokes, and LIVE.
If we want more people to join the side of good in this spiritual war, we need to make it clear to men that are on the fence that being a Christian is not being a humorless, overly solemn soyboy.
There’s actual evil in the world. Evil that needs to be fought against. And guess what? A video where Shia Labeouf says the f-word isn’t that evil. Evil is weakness, vice and sin. That’s what we should be fighting against, all of us, together. We cannot afford to let ourselves be divided by a joke on the internet. That will not help our cause at all.
A true Christian man fights real evil.
He lives abundantly. He guides and he leads others.
Be that man. Only then will others see Christianity for what it is and you’ll be able to help more lost souls find their way to Jesus Christ.