From the first Theology of the Body Congress:
[Dr. Janet Smith:] The 1st thing we need to know is God is chasing us down like a lover. Every lover is a pathological stalker. God is a stalker. #TOBCongress 6:55 PM Jul 28th via TweetDeck
And a reason why I do not tweet at all. Just saying.
It is statements like “God is a [pathological] stalker,” that pretty much sums up why I have a problem with the TOB Team USA, runaway train.
Along those lines, there is the following:
Sr. Helena [Burns]: TOB is a locomotive: Lead, Follow or Get out of the way! #TOBCongress 1:12 PM Jul 30th via TweetDeck
Thank you for the confirmation, sister. I am getting out of the way.
Hat tip to Dawn Eden.
Filed under: Catholic, Catholicism, Men, Religion, Women Tagged: Christopher West, Dawn Eden, Human Sexuality, John Paul II, Theology of the Body 
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Re: Prof. Smith’s comment. Don’t you think hyperbole is permitted to express God’s faithful offering of Himself? In someways God’s love does not make sense in that He loves us so much despite our failings.
Doesn’t it border on a lack of charity not to assume the good professor, who was incorrect in her defense of West, nonetheless intends to point at the mystery of God’s desire for our salvation?
Why does one assume that because I find tweeting her statement to be a very dumb idea, or because I disagree with the substance and appropriateness of the statement that I am attacking her person?
Anyone who says that “God is a stalker” has to know that they have opened themselves up to critique. You may think it reverent hyperbole. I don’t happen to think that human pathology, especially of the sexually deviant kind, is an appropriate analogy for the attributes of God. In this case I believe “hyperbole” to be a euphemism for irreverence.
Mr. Haley
When Christ spoke he once said that he would come “like a thief in the night” not that he is the thief in the night. The Good Shepherd worked for a long enough time did we really have to change it?
The cross is the sign of love not some bad screenplay based on contemporary emotions of sympathy. I believe the hyperbole in this case of stalker to be lame.
Ditto Fr Angelo “I don’t happen to think that human pathology, especially of the sexually deviant kind, is an appropriate analogy for the attributes of God”
especially for those wounded by out of control appetites (their own or of others related by affection, kin or institutional authority). Obsessive-compulsives express themselves in many misdirected ways, sometimes with a religious rationale, at one extreme corporal punishment the other libidinous touchy-feelies (can be culturally-determined of course). The indifference to the mutual reciprocity necessary for intimate relation is alarmingly offensive – Revelation is an interior indwelling of the sacred in communio. Compunction and contrition cannot be compelled, they develop in the soul’s imagination by bathe in self-examination led by Love, as a negative on photographic film develops when bathed in silver salts, a sense of sin seldom evidences itself unaided. Grace chastens by preserving the temporal consequences of sin in memory, a clouded conscience is perhaps the closest I would come to say I am God haunted, but the fearful “shade” is of my own making, not “the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind”
“Of all affliction taught a lover yet,
‘Tis sure the hardest science to forget!
How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,
And love th’ offender, yet detest th’ offence?”
Alexander Pope, Eloise to Abelard
http://www.monadnock.net/poems/eloisa.html
Upon reflection in charity, I could imagine speaker’s intent was to channel the muses of our culture’s great literary fugures such as Flannery O’Connor who use gruesome paradoxes to illustrate how grace redeems the most lost of souls. Found an interesting quote posted over at Quarere Deum on this theme from Proust’s opus:
http://quaerere-deum.tumblr.com/post/897606629/a-lidee-philosophique-de-methode-proust-oppose
on the constraints of chance as predetermined by divine providence, that means by which He informs us, necessitating us to think on our unique gift of existential relationship to Him. A little “deep” perhaps for TWITTERing to a generally non-literate minded audience? But I’m willing to entertain some exculpatory evidence of this line of thought, along with a humble admission that JPIIs TOB is NOT a train (unless the kind of locomotive meant is the French ‘sort’ used in the new movie INCEPTION – what a great cinematic treatment of a guilty conscience that is)