How Darkness Shrouds Christianity

[votivesoul]

NFS,

I am not disagreeing with any of the content of your posts, per se.

But look again at the title of your post versus your content. They don't match up. I know there is a techno-addiction in this country, even among saints. It IS sad and it IS negatively affecting the people of God.

This does NOT, however, mean, that Christianity, i.e. a global religious movement with close to 2,000,000,000 constituents or over 1/4 the population of the entire planet is "shrouded in darkness" just because some small percentage of that 2 billion (mostly in the USA) are constantly distracted by the noise they allow into their lives.

Jesus warned His people a long time ago against the cares of the life choking the Word right out of someone. But He didn't disparage an entire religious group of His own followers and claim that all people everywhere who call upon His name are "shrouded in darkness" just because they don't go out into the wilderness on a regular basis to disconnect.

The title of your post is the issue. It is just another semi-veiled assault upon the faith you admit to quitting. Instead, you could have titled the post something like "The dangers of technology", or "How constant technological noise interferes with spiritual disciplines" or some other such thing, and posted identical content, and all would have been well.

But nope, you had to jump all over Christianity as a whole. So my point about reaching out to people through technology was to show how the very thing you say shrouds Christianity in darkness can be used as a tool by a child of light to bring the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ to someone who otherwise really was shrouded in the darkness of their own sins.

So the onus is on you, through the content of your posts, to prove the thesis of your title. You have not done that at all.