Good Guy Greg is a Christian

OK, so I have no idea if the person in the picture is a Christian or not, but the persona of Good Guy Greg (GGG) displays a lot of Christian values. Good Guy Greg is an "advice animals" meme using a picture of a happy guy smoking, where he does nice things to humorous effect. There are other sites that have info about advice animals but fair warning, there's plenty out there that's not family friendly. Basically they are pictures with funny text added.

So what makes GGG so good?

He Loves His Neighbor

30.And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your mind, and all your strength. 31.The second is equally important: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' No other commandment is greater than these. - Mark 12:30-31 (NLT)

The majority of GGG posts involve him doing something kind, generous, or thoughtful for someone else. The subjects are funny because they are such simple things, but they are also a little sad because someone doing the same things in real life is rare.

I'm the first to admit that of course non-Christians can do something nice for someone else without any benefit to themselves. Being a Christian and being a nice person aren't mutually exclusive. The reasoning for brotherly love, however, has it's origins with Christianity, and when a non-Christian does something nice they are still displaying a Christian trait, similar to when I heat up some Hamburger Helper I'm displaying a culinary trait, but that doesn't make me a chef.

He's a Good Samaritan.

This concept goes hand in hand with loving your neighbor. The verses quoted above are followed by the parable of the good Samaritan, which can be read here if you're not familiar with it. Basically Jesus is asked who qualifies as a neighbor, and the story is his of saying it's, well, everyone. He takes the concept of neighbor beyond those we share a street with to a broader scale of everyone we come in contact with.

He Honors His Parents (and Significant Other)

Some of us were blessed with good parents and some with bad, but we are to honor them when we deal with them. That doesn't demand agreement, but it does demand respect and patience, and the same attitude applies to our spouses or significant others. GGG has both when a lot of us would fail.

He's Not Perfect 

Even Good Guy Greg makes a bad decision sometimes.  I mean he's even smoking in his now famous picture. Christians don't claim to be perfect. If you find one that does I'd find a different one to base your opinion of Christians off of. What we do claim is that we follow Someone who was perfect; Jesus. And by living that perfect life and dying a blameless death, He paved the way for the rest of us to follow Him.

The important thing in the case of GGG and ourselves it that we acknowledge our mistakes and pray for the strength and wisdom to prevent them from happening again.

So there you have it, my reasoning why as internet goers ask "What would GGG do?", he is asking "What would Jesus do?" Yeah, I went there... Sorry.

As a reward for making it this far without reaching TL;DR level, here are a couple of my favorites, and some advice from Courage Wolf.

Thanks for reading, most posts won't be this long.  God Bless and be safe out there in the wilds of the internet.