You would never, I hope, give medical or tax advice

without actually having the important, you know,

education and credentials to do that.

You wouldn't lead people astray in that way.

And yet so many of us are willing to give shallow spiritual advice.

And I mean, I think about Ezekiel 34, which is,

there's these false shepherds of Israel who are looking like leaders, but aren't actually

caring for the flock. And that's what we do when we virtue signal in the way that we do online

for the sake of engagement and likes

and follows. And so the ultimate takeaway here is I think that we all need to value deep

spiritual thoughtfulness, deep spiritual engagement. Because just to use one other metaphor here,

and I know the golden rule of not switching metaphors,

I'm definitely breaking it.

But when we perceive, when we give this perception

that we have deep thoughtfulness,

we're inviting people to dive head first

into the shallowness of the pool.

We need depth.

We need leaders who care more about virtue than vibes.

I think it's, I think we just, we simply like that.

And we've seen it.

Like we've all talked about that guy who's online, who has a mass following,

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