Sunday, March 20, 2011

h8red42: "Facebook is not ruining marriages, selfishness is"



Jezuzfreek777 misses the forest full of trees when he made the claim that Facebook ruins marriages. For those that broke up "because of Facebook" are missing the point that it is not Facebook that was the problem, but the relationship itself. Facebook makes unfaithfulness in a relationship more obvious and more tempting, but it is not the problem.

I often observe that Christians like Jezuzfreek777 don't look at issues deeply enough, i.e. tend to be shallow thinkers. Facebook doesn't break up relationships in the same way that guns don't kill people,  people kill people. People are the problem, not the website. Atheists and Christians should be able to find common ground in the idea that people have freewill (or what we think of as freewill) and are able to control their actions. If a relationship breaks up, it is because of the individuals in the relationship, not some social networking site. It seems Christians are always looking for some scapegoat to place blame on (poor Jesus). 

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