Video
Twitter
Facebook
RSS Feed
In the Beginning was The Word, not MS Word
Are social media tools a blessing or a curse for people of faith? Should we use digital technology to commune with the divine? Does God tweet?
I am very positive that God is hip to all the new digital technologies. Thank God for giving us the brains to invent these new social networking toys. But there is one thing I feel certain about -- God doesn't "tweet!"
God "twitters" every time God sees our inhumanity to each other. Perhaps God doesn't have time to monitor all of God's daily e-mail accounts, when there is so much violence in the world to worry about.
I suspect God chooses not to be on Facebook, but God does get in our face when we fail to care for our neighbor or help the poor.
Perhaps God finds it hard to compute our lack of civility to one another, and our unwillingness to respect each other's religious and cultural diversity.
Don't you think God wonders how we can spend so much time texting each other, and so little time being stewards of our fragile planet earth?
So maybe its time to Google and/or Yahoo and/or PRAY that God will back up our shortcomings and forgive us for being tempted once again in our modern day gardens to bite off a whole new variety of MACINTOSH APPLES."
WARNING -- A FAITHFUL COMPUTER VIRUS ALERT: Watch out for SPAM Devils whispering: 'tweet, tweet, tweet'..."
By
Bob Edgar
|
August 11, 2009; 11:44 AM ET
Save & Share:
Previous: God Incarnate, not Internet |
Next: The Digital Divine
Posted by: djmolter | August 20, 2009 12:01 PM
Report Offensive Comment
This so-called article is neither thoughtful nor amusing. If the Post is now paying people to string together bad puns and platitudes, sign me up brother - I could use the $$$.
Posted by: Sam888 | August 12, 2009 10:40 PM
Report Offensive Comment
Now here is an expression of the finitude of his god. God's too busy, god's wondering why, god is not on facebook. ergo: god is not beyond time, space, cyber space, nor does "he" have omniscience. Sounds like someone worships a demigod, perhaps a space alien, or maybe just a mythological superstition.
The god that I worship is Truth (absolute and relative), is knowledge, is justice, is here and now in every detail of our lives. I hope you will join us, but that is your ego choice.
hariaum
Posted by: Navin1 | August 12, 2009 11:55 AM
Report Offensive Comment
"Don't you think God wonders how we can spend so much time texting each other, and so little time being stewards of our fragile planet earth?"
Careful, you could get CrossPosted for saying something like that. :)
O-hoho.
Groovy. Right on. ;)
Posted by: Paganplace | August 11, 2009 4:06 PM
Report Offensive Comment
The comments to this entry are closed.
"I suspect God chooses not to be on Facebook, but God does get in our face when we fail to care for our neighbor or help the poor. "
I have to agree. If tweeting and Facebook and texting are used only to attract more people to church to save only themselves and their friends, it's virually worthless. There should be a strong social service aspect to any denomination calling itself Christian. Tweet your thoughts about working at a food bank, or a homeless shelter. OMG!