When I was a little kid, I never understood the big deal about Marilyn Monroe. I mean, I'd seen tons of pictures of her, because. . .how can you not? Her photos are worldwide as representations of beauty's pinnacle.
The thing is, I always thought she looked really "drag queenish" and ugly. She always wore too much makeup and never opened her eyes all the way. She looked really affected and fake to me, and I always wondered why people made such a huge deal about her and wanted to imitate her. It wasn't until I started to study her--watch her movies, read about her life, look at candid photos, see her in action--that I realized why she was considered such a measuring stick for female aesthetics. This understanding is not something easily put into words; I just had to study her on my own to get it.
You see, the very reason she looked manish to me had nothing to do with her being manly. She wasn't manish at all. Drag queens just want a piece of her iconic beauty, so in my ignorance I perceived her as an ugly drag queen. In other words, a man's drastic failure at achieving that feminine je ne sais quoi has nothing to do with Marilyn's actual prettiness.
I had understood her beauty all backwards.
I had understood her beauty all backwards.
A lot of people have the same perspective of God as I had of Marilyn. They understand Him all backwards. They watch T.V. shows or listen to people who hate God to get a view of Him, or else they look at fake and affected Christianity and call that, "God." They don't realize that when they criticize God, they aren't criticizing Him, but rather this skewed perception of Him.
People should see God in action to understand Him; not second-hand perspectives or crappy imitators.
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What an interesting contrast between two thoughts - God and Marilyn, but such a true perceived perception of both based on misconstrued information.
The thing that holds truth is that to truly know about someone is to research and study them, much the way you did with Marilyn - but we humans are far too lazy it seems, or even more frightening, we don't really want to know the truth because the truth will convict us. Therefore, it is easier to go on living in our misconceptions because it is safe and we won't be held accountable if we don't know.
One of the things that particular strikes me about this post is that you chose to use Marilyn instead of the Beatles or another well-known celebrity. There is much hype surrounding Marilyn these days ash her iconic figure makes a comeback. Perhaps this is a good indication of the renewal of reformed theology and reformed Christianity. Those of us who truly know God and Jesus need to be out there helping to break through people's misconceptions.
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