The Cursing Society

I'm inventing a new word, one which will fit perfectly with the new vibrantly interactive environment of social media today.

The word is defixionate. What does one do when he or she defixionates?

The word comes from a Latin word I just discovered, one that has been around for a couple millennia already. It was the practice of appealing to a particular Roman god to curse another individual, going so far as to drop off a "curse tablet" at the residence of the targeted person just so he or she knows how much revulsion is openly and actively directed at them.

Apparently it happened all the time.

Thing is, it happens all the time now, and social media makes it so much easier now.

People without a conception of God as described in Scripture, Someone who knows about defixionation in the worst way and is kind of ticked off about it, don't have a clue about how destructive the practice is. They also don't get that this same God is Someone Who Loves With His Life, and that mercy and grace and forgiveness and salvation is available out of the desire to curse others and allow that rank dissipation to fester in one's soul.

Please, I'm not exempt -- I too am convicted in His courts for my visceral desire to defixionate, there are loathsome people out there, justifiably so. But it is because of Christ that I may let it go, give it up, revel in His embrace and step out into that benighted World and love people with His love even if it means dying, or worse, relinquishing that desire to defixionate in whatever way seems available.

The World thrives on defixionation -- civic politics, institutionalized religion, expansive commercial activity is all over that -- and what with social media exploding right now? I mean, look at how rabidly everyone is screeching for Facebook etc. to monitor personal data better. They can't, and defixionaters love it in spite of their pathetic virtue signaling about how much they care.

But again, what do I have to say about it? I'm just seeing it, sharing it so maybe some may see this truth, turn to Him, think about things from the Kingdom and then speak meaningfully enough about these things so others will find that freedom too.
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