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Nothing Spreads Faster…

Posted by John Saddington on May 16, 2009

love_hateNothing spreads faster than a shared passion. Unfortunately, the “baddies” are finding it easier to spread hate around the world with the dawn of the socially-technological world.

Social Networking has enabled hate to go viral in ways that we’ve never seen before:

Militants and hate groups increasingly use social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and YouTube as propaganda tools to recruit new members, according to a report by the Simon Wiesenthal Center.

The report released on Wednesday noted a 25 percent rise in the past year in the number of “problematic” social networking groups on the Internet.

A sad consequence of extreme digital connectivity.

The advantage, though, that we have as Christians is to provide an explicit and obvious platform of dialogue. People who’s intentions are to hate others aren’t interested in a conversation; we, though, can do differently.

One of the suggestions that I have for many theological blogs is to make sure that your dogmatism doesn’t outweigh your interest in dialogue. It’s one of the few things that will help the world see the difference between the sheep and the goats.

[Image from Fstorr]

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John Saddington

John is the Chief Editor @ The 8BIT Network and Senior Blog Junkie here at ChurchCrunch.He enjoys Triple-Tall Americanos, developing Wordpress Themes, and a few other Random Things.

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6 Responses to “Nothing Spreads Faster…”

  1. Daniel_Berman
    Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 2:23 pm

    This precise reason, especially some of the communication networks that have been formed around global Jihad efforts, has been a major part of my desire to form the Issachar Network in order to provide an effective counter from the global Christian Community.

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  2. dewde
    Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 7:38 pm

    The parser in by brain couldn't validate that tattoo.

    peace|dewde

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  3. stephen Brewster
    Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    now it is up to a new generation of Christians to leverage this technology to spread Grace, Hope, & Love. The problem, we start to copy cat each others Christian message and we do not speak the "thing" that God would have for our communities.

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    • human3rror
      Sunday, May 17, 2009 at 4:01 pm

      Stephen,

      Thanks for stopping by…! i bet you're having a blast working with Carlos…!

      ;)

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  4. Graham Brenna
    Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 12:21 am

    So basically encourage conversation right? Because one person saying something is one thing… but when other's debate/agree/disagree with them… it's community! That's the type of thing the "haters" need to see…

    love the image BTW ;)

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