The beginning statement of "In case you haven't been apprised of the situation, your addiction to texting and email is ruining your relationship... with god." didn't seem to fit with the rest of the story. In fact I just read the yahoo tech article and i didn't see the head of the English catholic church as saying that electronic communication was coming between people and their worship of god. Just that it makes a unstable support network of peers.
As a former catholic, and now a protestant christian I tend to lean in the mindset that the catholic church goes about worshiping god wrong. But what the head of this church is saying it totally valid being he's talking about social networking and not god. Online friends are barely real friends, they are situational and once things aren't lined up super easy anymore they falter. I have 6 friends that I've been in contact with almost daily since middle school. which was about 15 years ago now. I like to believe I know what real friendship takes, and online friends just aren't them. At the same time I've seen plenty of people in everyday(real) life that seem to spread themselves too thin and make too many acquaintances without making any real good friends, they are often the people who are left with no one to turn to when they are really hitting bad times. So, with that said, I see what hes saying and in general agree with the statements. But I don't understand where Joshua came up with the coming between you and god thing.
I could see if this head of the church said that peoples idolatry of the iphone, apple and steve jobs were coming between yourself and god. :)
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Doax @ Aug 3rd 2009 1:10AM
The beginning statement of "In case you haven't been apprised of the situation, your addiction to texting and email is ruining your relationship... with god." didn't seem to fit with the rest of the story. In fact I just read the yahoo tech article and i didn't see the head of the English catholic church as saying that electronic communication was coming between people and their worship of god. Just that it makes a unstable support network of peers.
As a former catholic, and now a protestant christian I tend to lean in the mindset that the catholic church goes about worshiping god wrong. But what the head of this church is saying it totally valid being he's talking about social networking and not god. Online friends are barely real friends, they are situational and once things aren't lined up super easy anymore they falter. I have 6 friends that I've been in contact with almost daily since middle school. which was about 15 years ago now. I like to believe I know what real friendship takes, and online friends just aren't them. At the same time I've seen plenty of people in everyday(real) life that seem to spread themselves too thin and make too many acquaintances without making any real good friends, they are often the people who are left with no one to turn to when they are really hitting bad times. So, with that said, I see what hes saying and in general agree with the statements. But I don't understand where Joshua came up with the coming between you and god thing.
I could see if this head of the church said that peoples idolatry of the iphone, apple and steve jobs were coming between yourself and god. :)