Anti-Social Network

The riots in London and other cities "over there" give us pause. As Gil Smart noted in his Smart Talk video, it is also here. In places like Philadelphia, flash mobs attack innocent bystanders and bum rush stores. There is here, although the fires are not burning as high here yet.

Fueling some of this anti-social activities are the youths use of social networking and smart-phones.

Ah, technology. Can be used for good or bad. The human heart is the problem as Jesus said. We can't outrun our problems with our tools, for our tools can be used to destroy just as easily as they can to create. I have to think that Cain killed Abel with more than just his bare hands. Probably used a tool for tilling the soil for crushing a skull.

At the source of all human anti-social action is sin, or maybe I should write it SIN as to not allow eyes to pass over such a word and move on to other words. For if we don't diagnose the disease properly, the cure will elude us. The same sin of stealing applies equally to the miscreant in the hoodie crawling through a broken window of a store and grabbing a TV as to the miscreants in corporations like GE, that pay zero federal taxes through legal loopholes (as if we are unable to deduce who created such loopholes to start with).

Hosea 8:7

"They sow the wind and reap the whirlwind. The stalk has no head; it will produce no flour. Were it to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it up.



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