This blog is one of several that I check on a regular basis, and for whatever reason you think of me because of this (voyeurism, morbid interest, or just knowing a great thing when I see it), you can't deny that the response to Frank's blog has been life-alternating for people across the globe.
Case in point: I have the four previous books that Frank has published, and I like to leave them out on the coffee table. People usually pick one up and start to flip through it casually, as if it were a photo album. Then they start reading the postcards and flipping through the pages, reading and swallowing the information as fast as they can, and then go through the other three books in a similar manner.
I'm not sure what it is about PostSecret - perhaps it has the same Confession-like healing that some Catholics claim to feel after the sacrament of Reconciliation - but sometimes, even in pop culture (over 219 million hits on PostSecret constitutes pop culture, for sure) you learn something new every day:
When I was younger I used to believe that God and Satan were like Mr. Willy-Wonka and Mr. Slugworth. That they were really working together to see who was honest and I thought that if I told anyone, and exposed God's plan, that I would be blamed for blasphemy.
How's that for a different look at judgment? Most folks come to PostSecret to avoid just that: Judgment on their past actions, on current feelings, or future decisions. We all expect to be judged at some point in our lives, maybe several times, whether in the form of job evaluations, our parents, or an IRS audit. It's everywhere. Most folks believe they will be judged after death, as well; but the assumption that an all-good Presence would be doing the judging is wide and fleeting, while the idea that a possible cooperation with an all-evil Presence may help round out a fuller picture of our consciences. For a Catholic who believes that Satan was originally in God's good graces, this makes it all the more interesting to think about.
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