Jesus fears your Facebook profile, Mark Morford

[madokie]

Social networking leads to suicide! God hates MySpace! The Archbishop hath spoken
By Mark Morford

Another day, another slightly confused, curmudgeonly older white male stepping out from behind the drab, heavy curtain of a massive, dying religious dogma haunted by millennia of abuse and homophobia and scandal and misogyny and generally Getting it All Wrong Nearly All the Time Forever, to let the world know he is deeply concerned about kids today and their newfangled gizmongery and how it all just might be destroying social life and inviting death.

So it is that Archbishop Vincent Nichols, leader of the Roman Catholic Church of England and Wales, offered up his alarmist concern, saying that he's very worried that Facebook and MySpace et al are collectively serving to undermine real community and the development of personal skills, and can therefore lead kids toward depression and self-destruction and even -- say it with a frown and a deeply furrowed brow -- suicide. Ain't it the cutest thing?

As you might guess, I don't really care much for the goodly Archbishop's take on things. No one really should, given how the church hasn't exactly been relevant or intelligent or even remotely accurate in matters of popular culture and the vagaries of youth for, well, just about ever.

Besides, you always know if something is rather new, if it upheaves the norm and messes with social mores and especially if it dares to dance with definitions of love and sex and gender, the church will most assuredly come out, rather snarlingly, against it. It's just how they roll. ...

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[piratefish08]

1. Jeebus knows best.

now get of the computer and go stone something...........