Sometimes language is misused. Sometimes people are simply misunderstood. Social media is a product of the secular world. Social media is a platform for sharing ideas, sharing information, buying and selling products.
The prurience of the secular world is neither for improvement of the community, nor for the improvement of the individual. This prurience seeks only that which titillates, that which scandalizes, that which sensationalizes. This secular world encourages prurient behavior, sinful behavior. Being decadent, being rude, being selfish, being careless are virtues within the permissive world of the individual within the neon colored glossy secular world of endless good times and no personal responsibility.
Morality is a dirty word. That there are consequences for bad decisions is easily forgotten. There are explanations, justifications. There is sorrow. There is regret. But they happy later, the next morning, the next day. Now the party must continue. The fun must be captured, preserved.
Each generation is attracted to sin and temptation and wants to make them attractive and accessible for others to follow without too much effort. Sin is never original. Sin is never new. Each sin has been done before. Technology may change the distribution, the sharing of the sin but the acts remain the same.
We live in a time when no conversation is off limits, we live in a time when sex and being sexy dominates the media.
Our faith asks us to be merciful, to be compassionate. We are not asked to judge our neighbors. We are asked to control ourselves and to use our lives, our choices to lead others to Jesus Christ, to encourage others to follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.
As Christians we are asked to be aware, to be vigilant for the return of the Lord. As Christians we are encouraged to keep our gaze on goodness, holiness, kindness.
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