I’m at a loss…

I just watched the video above. And I’m very, very glad that I did. However, being the social person that I am, I wanted to suggest it to the folks I know on Facebook. At first I wrote:

Watch this, I am glad I did.

However, I didn’t feel that quite summed it up enough. So, then I wrote:

I just finished watching this and I suggest you do the same. Keep an open mind. Love and be loved. Don’t take the affection that we are all naturally granted for one another for granted.

But then, that made me feel as though I was advocating the message of the church (which, if you were to ask anyone I know, isn’t true). So then I wrote:

This is a very interesting documentary of the Westboro Baptist Church. I suggest you watch it.

Ugh, can you get any more bland, guy?

The point I’m trying to bring up is this: I am a person who tends to play devil’s advocate, and often at that. I will sometimes pay attention to, and argue points that I don’t really agree with to make an argument or to help spread understanding (even if it is only to myself). So I watched this film. And yes, I’m glad I did. But how do you then suggest, in the most casual of settings (social media), that people you know, love, don’t know, or have ever even met in your life should do the same?

The issue lies in the last two categories. The people that I know and love will understand why I want them to watch it, simply because they know the kind of person that I am and I am not a hate spewing monster (a mindset that most have accepted of the WBC). However, there is still the issue of the folks that don’t know me well, or at all. These folks have nothing with which to judge my actions. Therefore, they (in their acceptable judgment) would then think that I am happy to see a documentary shed light on some of the more intimate facts of the church, not all of which are terribly negative.

Strange situation that we’ve come across, huh folks?