Professor Richard Beck offers a provocative and well-written look at a truth that hardly anyone else is willing to state. In his piece "How Facebook Killed the Church," he argues that our new connectivity through Facebook and cell phones, and the broader digital world of Twitter and Skype, is hammering away at the foundational social purpose of organized religion and its houses of worship. He cites demographic evidence that the millennials are leaving in droves and not returning, arguing that this is not because of some new awareness that religion is corrupt or boring, but rather because the digital world is providing what the Church once provided nearly exclusively: a center of social networking.
He writes that the main reason that churches thrived in the past is "easy, social relationships":
Read the entire article here: http://www.insidecatholic.com/feature/will-facebook-kill-the-church.html
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Friday, February 25, 2011
Will Facebook Kill the Church?
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