One day about a year ago, I was on my way to work and listening to a woman from the Westboro Baptist Church talk about how God disliked or hated Steve Jobs. She went on her soap box explaining that this amazing man did not use his "Stage" to get people to come to God.
Margie Phelps, daughter of the small
church’s founder and the lawyer who represented the church during their First Amendment case at the Supreme Court,
(which Westboro won,) was among the Phelps
family members to use Apple products to Tweet about the death of the Apple
co-founder.
“Westboro will picket his
funeral.He had a huge platform; gave God no glory & taught sin,” Margie tweeted Wednesday night on her iPhone
As wrong as protesting a funeral can be, it caused me to ask myself some hard questions almost a year later. The platform that I currently have, How am I using it? All of us want to achieve more than what we have already achieved but the question is what are we doing with our current location. People hate on Tim Tebow all the time but the guy is an example of what we could all be doing whether we are spiritual or not. Portraying to the world that we have deep morals and values is important for current and future generations to see. Sam Bradford, Tebow, Tony Dungy, and Kevin Durant exemplify their respective beliefs on the national and international stage. We currently live in a society that waits for people to fail at their beliefs instead of promoting people who don't. Everyone can't and won't have this type of platform but it is easier to do when you use the platform your already given. What are you doing with your platform? Should you do anything with it?
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