The Teapot Atheist: Isn’t that cute! The Church figured out the intertubes!
December 24th, 2008 | by Conrad Walton |This is quite an indictment against the church’s use to technology, or the lack there of. This is how the secular world views the church, as “a primitive, backwards relic from a superstitious, theocratic Dark Age”. While this article is specifically about the Catholic church, the view applies to most all Christian churches.
I think that phrase could also be used for any business that doesn’t have a web page. In 2008, there is not reason that any business doesn’t have a web site, none at all.
It’s not that hard folks. It’s really not. I sell a book, Web Site Starter Kit, that will tell you how to get a web site for free, (yes, free!) and it won’t suck, I promise. You need to drag your small business or church out of the Dark Ages and into the 21st century. All the kids are doing it these days.
The Teapot Atheist: Isn’t that cute! The Church figured out the intertubes!
Secular people practically own the internet. It’s old news. We’ve been bloggging, podcasting, all of it, ever since the internet was invented. And now the Vatican has just figured out what this crazy “iTunes” thing is that all the kids are using. The Pope made headlines in 2005 because he figured out how to use a five year-old piece of technology known as a “text message” with the help of only a $90 million Peter’s Pence Vatican budget.Church is a primitive, backwards relic from a superstitious, theocratic Dark Age.
The whole story is quite a commentary on what people really think about the Church. Why would it be news for them to use the internet if it didn’t defy our understanding of the fact that the Church is a primitive, backwards relic from a superstitious, theocratic Dark Age?
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