What?
Don’t be fooled by the animated .gif above, I don’t hate the pope. I never met the guy, so why would I have a bone to pick with him. That doesn’t mean I agree with everything he says, though.
At a Vatican conference on culture that took place Saturday, Pope Benedict XVI said:
“A large number of young people… establish forms of communication that to do not increase humaneness but instead risk increasing a sense of solitude and disorientation.”
New forms of communication must be humanizing or they will increase “confusion and solitude” among their users, Pope Benedict XVI has said. The Church is not indifferent to these innovations but seeks to purify and use them “with critical sense.”
To which he added that the internet “numbs” young people and creates an “educational emergency.” But his “beef” with my interwebz doesn’t stop there. Last month he said technology is “blurring the boundary between truth and illusion” (but exorcism is real?).
And while his points do have some validity, what bothers me is that he doesn’t know much about what he’s talking about – he’s as tech savvy as my cat – and has no solutions to offer (other than praising God).
We’ve been aware of the downsides of tech for a long time, old man… either tell us something new, something that we didn’t think about before, or mind your pedophile-protecting church business. Nobody (in their right mind) wants the church to “purify” their technology.
PS: “purify” innovations? Didn’t the church “purify” Galileo’s teachings too?
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