| blogging is evil | | Date Created: Oct 16, 2006, 03:27 PM |
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If you haven't already heard about this anti-blog article on the web, chances are you will. Here's what you'll be told: Those goofy Evangelical Christians have decided that blogging is evil. And they tell you all about it on their own blog. Get it? It's evil except when I do it? What a hypocritical article.
Ok, first of all, this isn't hypocritical. They were saying that no individual should have his or her own website and thus publish stuff without input from their brothers and sisters.
Their post was on their organization's website and presumably went through peer review, perhaps the author was even asked by someone else to write it. They're against the individualism of the blog/personal site, not against the internet per se.
They're wrong, they're misinformed, but they're not being hypocritical.
Secondly, they may not be very wrong. Check out Andrew Jones/tallskinnykiwi's reasons for taking a vacation from blogging. He's also written a great article (which I've referred to before) about the spirituality of blogging. There are real concerns here.
Thirdly, it's probably worth knowing tha the anti-blog site is the mouthpiece of a cult: The Restored Church of God. In the USA in the middle of the 20th century a guy named Herbert Armstrong went off the doctrinal rails and founded a church called The Worldwide Church of God. He had a huge radio "ministry" and his magazine was called "Plain Truth."
After his death, the guys he entrusted to run the Church began to realize that his doctrines didn't square with Scripture. They publicly repented and sent their leadership to evangelical educational establishments for special retraining courses en mass -- in the States it was Fuller, in the UK it was LBC, now LST.
Some folks in the church could not hack the public repentance spiel or the move away from Armstrong. These guys founded the church now called The Restored Church of God (because they cannot get the legal right to use the name Worldwide Church of God).
These folks are a cult. Maybe it wouldn't be surprising if they were against individual blogs or, for that matter, independent thinking. |
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