SATURDAY THOUGHTS: PLATFORMS

"The executioner stands on a stepped platform..." 

That was all I needed to read. A gallows involves a platform, too.

Not every opportunity to be elevated and seen by the masses, will portray an individual in a favorable light. Some platforms are designed and built with destruction in mind. These days, we're trusting comedians to give us serious news, and ministers to give us laughs and ratchetness (under the guise of "keeping it real") 

No one voluntarily goes to the gallows. No one going to the gallows thinks, for one minute, that they are in control of anything. To get someone to go voluntarily, the gallows, has to be--must be-- camouflaged as something wonderful. 

What could someone promise you, that would make you volunteer to episodically snuff the life out of everything that is dear to you?

Someone realized it is very profitable to seek out gullible, ambitious people and give them platforms, rigged with hidden ropes. They fall for the scheme, and use the ropes to strangle their own reputations, air their dirty laundry, trip up their families and friends, and tie in knots, any actual good work they've previously done. 

The new executioner, for some, is social media. For others, it’s reality TV. It demands situations; the more drama and shock, the better. Whether a thing is real or true, or not, doesn’t matter. Just get viewers talking.

For Christians, reality TV seems to be an even bigger, elevated trap, that threatens to take God and the church along for the drop, and make Him an irrelevant laughingstock. It's a good thing His reputation is pristine, and he has nothing to lose.

Unfortunately, it's not only the cable media that's giving people of faith a place to make fools of themselves, and keeping ever before us, the blunders of Christian performers. Where is the first place to get the juicy details of the troubled lives of preaching, teaching, playing, and singing ministers of the gospel? TMZ? Nope. Some Christian radio station websites, blogs, and podcasts have that distinction. I guess they're using any rope that's left over, to air the laundry of the very performers whose music they play.