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Who Needs Church When We Have Internet Gods?

Posted by John Saddington on Feb 4, 2010

Wow. I love this.

Thoughts? Do we, as Christians, get “sucked” into this mentality in even the slightest ways with our “spiritual heroes?”

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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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19 Responses to “Who Needs Church When We Have Internet Gods?”

  1. Abijah
    Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 10:23 am

    At least they spelled it lower case ‘g’.

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  2. dannyjbixby
    Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 10:49 am

    You just love this because you love Paris Hilton.

    Don’t even try to play it off.

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  3. NoelColeman
    Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 11:15 am

    I’d say of course. We’ve struggled with this since the early days of Christianity. Paul himself dealt with this when people were arguing about who was following which apostle. But to be fair, it can be easy to accidentally idolize the person God uses versus the God that uses them. (Not that I’m saying God is using Paris…)

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  4. Kyle Reed
    Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1:04 pm

    I think we definitely struggle with this. That is why big christian famous people can shape culture and what we do. I think that is pretty obvious in the way that most churches follow what other churches are doing because they have had success.

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    • John Saddington
      Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1:07 pm

      that’s true. it’s a real struggle at times.

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    • brett barner
      Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 4:05 pm

      I think of all the people who the Christian community held high and then they let us down, and we never forgive or forget.

      I saw a quote somewhere. I can’t remember who said it or exactly how it was worded, but the gist of the quote was this: Only follow dead people because they won’t let you down.

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  5. Randy Kinnick
    Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 1:36 pm

    @yayitsbreanna has told the truth! Lots of people may operate in this thinking because god (media) has produced lots of “icons” for worship.

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  6. Joel
    Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    Interesting the way you recast the question for spiritual heroes. I suppose we do to some extent, but then I would argue that is what spiritual heroes are for – to remind us that it is possible to live a holy life and that there is a god. Of course, when you said “spiritual heroes” my mind immediately went to the saints, and not modern Christian celebrities (where I can see the danger).

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    • John Saddington
      Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 3:00 pm

      yeah. this was more of an off-the-wall thought that i had… and paris hilton is so link bait.

      ;)

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  7. Mikes
    Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 6:32 am

    Hopefully not.

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  8. PhillipGibb
    Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 9:38 am

    a god that is an angel? or an angel that wanted to be a god? interesting.

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