I have a friend that recently tried to start an official facebook club for her youth group. She was shot down and told that she should take that pagan line of thinking elsewhere. I made up that part, but her suggestion was beaten with a stick of holiness like a devil pinata. But then she started to notice that most of the kids in the youth group were contacting her through facebook. They were there, ready to hang out, ready to start a group but the church's stance was that God is not cool with facebook.
Here's my take on facebook: I think it, like anything else, is a good thing that is easily corrupted. I don't think God has anything against us communicating via a social network. But I think it's also populated to some degree by some sweaty old men hiding from their wives in their basements pretending to be cast members from Disney's High School Reunion. So you have to be careful but is it a purely evil device of the devil? No. Am I on it and eager to be your friend? Yes. Will my daughters be using it? I guess that really depends on the convent's internet access but from what I hear, the Sisters of the Andes Mountains don't get great reception, which is a shame, a real shame. Such is the price of raising two nuns.
(Big thanks to Dorothy for the facebook idea)
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Reminds me of "Publicly hating but secretly watching and loving Will and Grace...Grey's Anatomy, etc." :o) You know...when it's all good to watch an episode alone but when with others you have to reprimand the characters out loud and make that eek face when their are references to homosexuality or pre-marital sex. Eek.
The main downside to Facebook is that once you're on it, it stalks you worse than the craziest ex-girlfriend on the planet. Not cool. Now, having said that, I'm gonna look you up and friend you. (And then I might just zombie-serve you a bowl of pain.)
...."but her suggestion was beaten with a stick of holiness like a devil pinata..."
worth the price of high speed internet......lol
Bwaha! Love the last few sentences. (And Facebook.)
It's High School Musical, not reunion.
I once heard a guest speaker and a youth service literally, without a hint of irony or sarcasm, compare Facebook and instant messaging (and basically the internet in general) to the golden calf.
"Is the internet all bad? Well, gosh no! You can look up SCRIPTURE on the internet!"
-M
I don't know many brannons. Are you married to a Jil?
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