The Facebookidek Priesthood

I don't know if any of you have heard anything about this yet... but supposedly the Mormons are putting in a bid to buy Facebook. With some 30 billion dollars in the bank, it looks like they can afford it too.

So what changes can we expect in Facebook if this really does happen. First of all, in the religion category you will only have two options... Mormon or Future Mormon. All picture containing drinking of alcohol will have a computer-generated Coca-Cola logo superimposed on the bottle/can/keg (advertising... how else do you think they get all that money?). The New Feed will stream any newly acquired information about your ancestry. There will be slots to include more than one wife/girlfriend in your relationship status. Once you sign up you will automatically be added to the "You Know You're Mormon If..." Facebook group. There will be a newly added "Knock-knock" option. Here Mormon missionaries can solicit your Facebook as well. The only thing is, there is no ignore option for this feature. And obviously, this will be the default picture on anyone's account who hasn't upload their own pic.

What about the name Facebook? Will that change? "Facebook of Latter Day Saints." The "Face book of Mormon." Maybe, "Face It Joseph Smith Was A Prophet Book." Or perhaps, "That Social Networking Site That Used To Be Awesome."

My long time readers will know that I've spent some time with the Mormons, getting to know them and their beliefs. I like them. This was some joking, I didn't really mean to be too disrespectful; however, with $30 Billion, why not do something good, instead of just building churches and sending people to my door. It would take an estimated $60 Billion to cut world hunger in half... as I see it, the Mormons should have us half way there.

I know they send young missionaries all over the world, to both wealthy and impoverished countries, but why does it always seem that growing religious groups are so concerned with PR in the ways that don't matter, like Facebook. Get good PR with the sick and dying rather than the teenage computer user. Maybe I'll call the new set of Mormon missionaries in my area so I can throw some hard questions at them, and give them a little perspective.

I got this news from 9to5mac.com of all places.

WiFi And The Omniscience Of Man

I don't know how to feel about this. It's kind of cool and kind of scary.




I just can't help but think man is getting a little too prideful with all this technology.

I mean heck... if the invention of brick lead to a pride God would not stand for, how much more would the instant knowledge of everything man knows be conducive to an even greater pride.

All unified under the common language of the World Wide Web.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not preaching Doomsday here. I just fear for our salvation as a race when we constantly rely so heavily on our own ability and achievement.

I do wonder if God will choose to devastate our arrogant unity someday, "scattering" us by destroying the Internet or something. Maybe then we will stop building our city. Y2K (part 2) is coming, watch out baby. This time... it's for real!

What Kind Of Witness Are We?

I'm sorry so many of my posts have a sense of negativity to them, I'm hoping to have some uplifting ones very soon. I do like to think that there is hope in the recognition of wrong things and us turning away from them.

There's a new youtube-like website available on the internets. It's... well maybe you should just read for yourself.

Quotes taken from here.

Mission Statement

MuhammadTube.com/.org/.net, is a video-driven social network that enables people to connect and share with friends, family, co-workers and ministries in an unfiltered medium where it concerns the wickedness and filth that is Islam. The community of Christians use Muhammadtube to upload, imbed and share videos, upload and share photos, create their own blogs and forums, seek answers and explore their faith.

Yes! Finally a place where I can focus all of my "ministry" against Islam. Took them long enough. MuhammadTube.com, welcome.

Their mission statement doesn't even try to seem respectful at all. Total abandonment of objectivity I guess. And it's unfiltered... does that mean profanity and nudity are accepted, as long as they go to tear apart Islam?

"The wickedness and filth that is Islam." They do know that we share a belief in Jesus and the Old and New Testament, right? The statement they have goes to say that Islam is entirely filthy and wicked... even the Bible? Are we sending these videos to Muslims so they can convert, prospective Muslim converts so they can change their mind, or Christians who are looking for something else to oppose?

At the end of that statement it says this is for us to explore our faith. It sounds more like a place to claim our faith rather than explore it. You've already told me there is nothing redeemable about Islam.

Muhammadtube Vision

Jesus Christ is the foundation and cornerstone of Christianity. Because of His love demonstrated on the cross by dying for our sins, we now have reason to fellowship with one another and proclaim salvation through His life and resurrection. We place great emphasis on teaching the Bible in public, studying it in private and using it as a guide for our daily lives. We encourage Christian growth by abiding in Jesus Christ through His Word, prayer, fellowship and by yielding our lives to the Holy Spirit. Our endeavor is to show a Christ-like love to all men, and we feel it should be exhibited in our lives by our words as well as our actions. Our goal is to develop the ministry of every member to the benefit of all. We feel we are held accountable to help people connect with Jesus Christ and experience the gift of eternal life.

This sounds great if you hadn't read their mission. When you put the two together you realize they are contradicting themselves, or have a skewed view what Jesus says, or what "all" means. It would greatly appear that they are excluding Muslims from those to love, as Jesus expressed love. I don't think I've ever heard of Jesus condemning another religion, unless it sacrificed children or had barbaric practices that were obviously unethical... but not usually then, either. Love was embracing. Getting someone close enough to you that they could see how you do things and experience it themselves.

I'd like you all to know that I first heard about this site from a blog post on a site called Friendly Atheist. The atheists aren't angry at "God," they are angry at what is done by those who believe in God. They see a direct relation, all too often, between a religion and violence, hate, corruption, dehumanization, hypocrisy, etc. How is this site helping that?

The thing about atheists is that they are usually people of reason, and often times level-headed, or at least smart. Creating things like Muhammadtube.com makes nothing better. And that's obvious. It's feeding the flames of resentment from all sides, we are turning ourselves into the radicals we are opposed to. We are seeing them as our "enemy" with no redeemable quality, and because of that, others see us as an enemy.

And in the mean time, we are not doing Jesus justice. We are crucifying Jesus all over again. When we've been given and experienced the grace, peace, and love (the heavenly gift) of God and then abandon it by not showing it to others, we are denying its goodness and its power. We are denying the power of Christ, and the validity of his nature to act in the world. We are abandoning him on the cross all over, choosing Rome (worldly power) instead of Christ (the humble power of God).

Let's stop feeling like we need force to overcome our enemies, and let's encourage each other, in love, to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us.

We are surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses, Christians, Muslims, atheists, agnostics, those starving, those with excess, the condemning, the accepting, those who have conviction of justice, those who are ignorant to it; they all are watching, and not the least of them, God is watching too.

The Interweb Of DOOM

Is the Internet more good or more bad?

It's helping to shape our culture in interesting ways.

We did without the internet for thousands (maybe millions) of years.

Is the Internet corrupting us?

Is it our next Tower of Babble, uniting man in arrogance?

Comment with your thoughts