Auggie's Right, Dorsey's Wrong

Among the things for which St. Augustine is known is the doctrine of original sin -- that human beings are sinful -- in this case he means separated from God -- from before their birth and they require outside assistance to correct that condition. A seminary classmate once explained it this way during a discussion: "We all suck, but God loves us anyway." It's kind of a riff on a quote from Will Campbell's memoir, Brother to a Dragonfly, which goes, "We're all bastards, but God loves us anyway."

In any event, original sin is a doctrine that produces evidence of its truth on a regular basis -- and comes now a group of people who have taken a family friend of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to task for asking the justice to officiate when she married her now-husband on August 30. In short, these people have been Tweeting at the couple that they "killed RBG."

The Tweeting volume grew heavy enough that the couple locked their Twitter accounts, meaning that they are now private and no one can post to them unless the account owner allows it. That there are people who are so monumentally deficient in intellect and tact that they would suggest the performance of a wedding ceremony was the eventual cause of death for an 87-year-old woman with pancreatic cancer is proof that Augustine was right -- we all suck. That random strangers who hold this idea can shove it into the face of the couple via a social media platform is another horrible happening brought to us by Jack Dorsey's Greatest Wrong, Twitter.