The Value of Brainwashing
Is it good or bad that everytime I consider the way that the web 2.0 works, I ponder the anti-christ and how he is eventually going to find me because of my belief system, and the web has become is tool to do this?
This is obviously because of the way I have been taught about what the Bible says about the end times, but no matter how hard I try to ignore this, it always comes to my mind. I’ve gone through these phases where, at first, I knew the web was a part of the whole wretched plan of satan to destroy the Kingdom of God.
Next, I realized I was a bit misguided and decided that the web could be used for good too. But eventually, it would catch up to us and I would some day be sifted out like tares and wheat for my beliefs, but who cares, now is now, and I could worry about that some other day. (I would of course, be a part of the wheat)
Now I just don’t care what goes out about me and who knows about it. And if some middle east dude decides to link up Israel and the Arab nations and create a massive country that combines the United States and Europe, so be it. This does not change what I’m called to do and who I’m called to serve. I would just assume love my God and my community, and share my adventures around the world. If somebody doesn’t like love, then he or she can “sit on a tack.”
But until then, because of my background, I’ll always keep in my mind the teachings that started in the 1800′s that imply the anti-christ is out to get me whenever I post anything on this darned blog.
Let’s all sing together: “There’s no time to change your mind, the Son has come and you’ve been left behind.”
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wow… did someone make a snarky comment to you? Here’s my worthless 2 cents (because really, what CAN you buy with 2 cents?) It can be addicting to blog, to read blogs, to “discover” new blogs written by fellow christians etc. It can be tempting to read other people ideas instead of actually sitting down and praying, reading His word, and showing His love. That’s how the Web is a satanic tool in my life… in terms of feeling like it will lead the anti-christ directly to me – bring that sucker on, I’ve got a few words for that slimy guy!
As I pondered this, post, Marty, one of the things that eventually occured to me is that you, and me, and every body who follows Christ, has this paralell struggle. That struggle is to grow beyond the limitied world view that we grew up in. For me, this is growing past my biggotted reactions to views that appear uneducated; it’s about not being a humanist, about realizing that the big solutions are not found in politics or science.
Maybe part of the real meaning of being born again is the idea that we need to leave behind the preconceptions and assumptions that we grew up in and with. Maybe when succeed in doing this the distinctions between us fall away (Paul said there is no Jew or Gentile, no slave or free person; today it might mean that there is no Republican or Democrat, no fundmanetalist or emergent) probably there’s some sort of connection to the biblical ideas around renewing our minds in the spirit.
i think blogging and myspace and facebook.. are the least of our worries when it comes to the antichrist and politics