I think it depends a great deal on the meme. I have seen some on facebook that are hilarious and don’t strike me as irreverent. I can also easily imagine that there are memes out there that are sacrilegious or blasphemous.
There is one person on this forum (Cruciferi?) who consistently posts funny memes in the middle of hot button threads.
I LOL frequently and appreciate the effort.
I find some funny and others disrespectful or damaging. The disrespectful ones are those that poke fun at saints and the damaging ones are those that snipe at other Christians in an unloving way. But that is simply my personal opinion.
We (seminarians) use them all the time at the seminary. Sometimes even to describe each other.
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