Twitter Is Not for Theology

Above, two controversial recent tweets. Pope Francis you know. Dan Haseltine is the lead singer of the Christian rock band Jars of Clay. He kicked up a huge storm among his Christian fan base with that tweet above. I read his subsequent Twitter feed, and it was almost painful; the guy was trying to discuss a complex moral topic on a 140-character medium, and he couldn’t pull it off. Who could? He felt battered and misunderstood by the end, and if you read his feed, you can see why.

On the other hand, as he admitted in a blog post at week’s end, he brought it on himself. Excerpt:

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