Religious fanatics once told us that the world was flat. Needless to say, they were wrong. What 96% of the world fail to realize is that these same people are the individuals responsible for the concept of god and sin, church and a reason not to sell beer before noon on Sundays – at least if you are a citizen of Texas. What have religious institutions ever done to earn humanity’s trust? Even if a Jesus did exist, what does that even have to do with the church? I fail to follow the logic of religion. If you need to go to church every Sunday to figure out why religion is or isn’t important in your life, then it sounds like to me the foundation of religion is severely flawed. I guess if enough people believe in the whole notion of a God, then the argument is lessened to that of “who does it hurt? We should worship whatever we want.”. Well then this is not an argument anymore, like the questioning as to whether or not the world is flat, but has become an issue of conjecture or opinion. This, I can follow as logically sound.
So has Facebook killed the web? Has facebook killed the bible, or art, or all literature as we know it? I find such a question absurd just as one might ask whether you believe in a Jesus Christ as your lord and savior. What one must ask is who is asking the question. I would bet the bank that any such line of questioning would derive from a source whose best interest is to make up such nonsense. Passionately believe in things, but do not try to persuade as that is the first sign of disinformation. Disinformation leads to manipulation and ultimately persuasion, of which I believe we are all subject to in some form or fashion. The fact is is that Facebook is a website no matter how large or how immense they make themselves out to be. People can easily turn to another source of information at will as I believe that those online could care less about what a website is or what facebook is or how powerful they seem to be.
I believe our society is attempting to pioneer something great, just as we found that the world was round. If facebook helps us figure out what that something is, then so be it…if it’s only purpose is to identify that I like the color red, then it will fail. Humans are trying to connect to something greater than the Internet, something greater than religion, and something greater than ourselves. We need to stop ourselves from asking such stupid questions and find enough strength to figure out the right questions to ask.
