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Catholic Church calls for an end to secular social networking
THE ROMAN Catholic Church has once again revealed how in touch it is with modern times by calling for a ban on Facebook-like social notworking sites.
The Cei (Italian Episcopal Conference) slammed social networks a day after opening a site of its own. Apparently the fear is that people who use social networking sites will turn into individuals who will start to think for themselves.
Archbishop Pompili hit out about what he called "networked individualism" which he said creates people who "terminate links with the surrounding area". We guess the Archbishop thinks that the only people who are supposed to live in such unhealthy isolation and "live in the world but [...] not of it" are monks and nuns.
He warned that relationships formed online were not real. Well, not as real in the same way as such important things like an invisible gods, angels, virgin births and Papal infallibility.
Facebook and its ilk create an "online egocentrism" and are responsible for drying up of real relationships, he said. Although asking a celibate priest about relationships is like asking a vegan about the best type of meat feast pizza to buy.
The chairman of the Cei, Bishop Mariano Crociata said that the Internet varies between "elation and mistrust" and it is time to find a middle way. He didn't say what that middle way was, however banging on the evils of Facebook does not strike us as particularly balanced.
All this is ironic when the church has released its own Vatican social notworking site which is designed to stick its priests a "little closer to the faithful". If the church fears people will become individuals by using social networking sites then surely it is sending its own faithful to hell and sticking demons on its friends list. µ
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The ways of God is never equal to the ways of the world. If you choose the world,then you cannot and you will never understand God, the only Truth.
While it is true that in some cases secular networking has benefited some people, it has also been an instrument of many inappropriate and irresponsible acts.
Only God's ways is perfect and at least for the readers who are believers and are into secular social networking, they get the warning from the church.
It is up to them, how they will use their free will.
Besides, we (the believers) have less regard on God's warning about secular social networking just because the church, the messenger of His message is imperfect. If the people in the church have flaws,it does not make the Truth about the ill effect of social networking untrue.
For the believers, faith and reason go together all the time, that's why theologians study philosophy.
For the nonbelievers, I will love you unconditionally by praying for you.
God bless!
This has got to be one of the smarmiest, pissiest article I have ever read. I felt a virulent case of acne coming on.
CEL represents less than 2 percent of the Church.
But facts are like angels, they just can't possibly exist or deserve any consideration
Hey Nick, an excellent (and very witty) article.
Filth here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7849226.stm
Bans don't work, in fact, it promotes what is band. The Bible was band by the Catholic Church in the dark times and it promoted it even further.
Bans are also non-scriptural, Rome is acting like a state using state like actions (bands) instead of acting like a faith based institution. God has already twice arranged a contract with Israel as a Nation with man breaking the contracts with him both time, Rome's stance as a replacement hardly does it justice. With the known failures by Israel, it's poor choices in the past, God has finally rejected all form of human run governments.
Choices, there are many choices to take part in, God gave us this gift and we have allotted time to make the best of it.
Evil permeated in every tools used on this earth, the internet, facebook hammers, knives and nails, even the Bible and religion is able be used for evil. It's up to the individual to recognize it and walk away, or not.
Where is the source? You have no link no reference, am I missing something here?
Guess now wouldn't be a good time to mention that I met my girlfriend via facebook (friend of a friend), and that she's a Polish Catholic. :-D
Maybe in response Facebook should call for a ban on the catholic church?
Instead of throwing rocks on the church, supplying no link what so ever and only accusing maybe you should take the time and educate your self a bit (let's pretend this was not only aimed towards the author).
I now understand that church was throwing rocks not against the facebook but against the thought set you just produced (it is in fact what facebook produces) with this article on the inquirer.
How easy it is to be a critic, yes (maybe i could get accustomed to produce critics with no background at all); just stick with the software-hardware stuff, ok :D
It always fascinates me when secular and religious priests talk about preserving relationships? A church that took over 400 years to apologizes (sort of) for Galileo with "the public would not have been ready for a solar centric world image. It is like a Bush (remember him) situation where the decider has burned all his political capital and still tries to test the waters. The Catholic Church has been out of touch and unable to control the media for quite some time. Instead of adapt, their bet is that science and society will implode eventually. The old are dying out, the young with their comprehension of dealing with information are in, the Vatican still thinks it has something to say.
They're finally choosing really important things to remedy. That thing about priests and little boys was just not all it was cracked up to be.
<quote networked individualism" which he said creates people who "terminate links with the surrounding area..create an "online egocentrism" and are responsible for drying up of real relationships</quote
It really sounds like he is talking about large cities in general. Perhaps New York should be banned then...
'Well, not as real in the same way as such important things like an invisible gods, angels, virgin births and Papal infallibility'.
Well that's a real corker of a sentence.
Couldn't you read it through before posting? Might I suggest 'Well not as real as important things, like an invisible god, angels, a virgin birth and Papal infallibility'.
As far as I know, Catholics (and Christians in general) only acknowledge one god and one virgin birth, but as an atheist, I might be hopelessly out of touch. That's a bit like, but not in the same way as, Cardinal Paparazzi.
More people are dribbling away from superstition with each passing minute. Cogger's conclusion: Opting into social networking = opting out of organized superstition.
Don't forget the Inquisition and the Hitler Youth :-))
There's a lot of "we guess" and "apparently" in your denunciation of the Italian Episcopal Conference.
I would be interested to know exactly what they did say.
Can you post a link and let people decide for themselves whether to get hysterically outraged or not?