Pope worried about competing with the Internet

[A Person]

The Pope issues several assertions ripe for derision.

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday warned that the Internet does not make people more humane but instead risks increasing a "sense of solitude and disorientation" among "numbed" young people.

"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," Benedict told a Vatican conference on culture.

Unlike - oh say, being physically raped by their preist?

He also said that young people were being "numbed" by the Internet, adding that the technology was creating an "educational emergency -- a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence."

It's an emergency! People are being educated about how the Catholic Church enabled and covered for the rapists on their payroll

Benedict last month said the growing use of new technologies should set off "an alarm bell" as it was blurring the boundary between truth and illusion.

And we all know that's the sole perogative of the Church.

[BecauseHeLives]

The Pope issues several assertions ripe for derision.

Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday warned that the Internet does not make people more humane but instead risks increasing a "sense of solitude and disorientation" among "numbed" young people.

"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," Benedict told a Vatican conference on culture.

Unlike - oh say, being physically raped by their preist?

He also said that young people were being "numbed" by the Internet, adding that the technology was creating an "educational emergency -- a challenge that we can and must respond to with creative intelligence."

It's an emergency! People are being educated about how the Catholic Church enabled and covered for the rapists on their payroll

Benedict last month said the growing use of new technologies should set off "an alarm bell" as it was blurring the boundary between truth and illusion.

And we all know that's the sole perogative of the Church.

The internet along with testing has decreased personal interaction slills in older chilkdren and younger adults. I see this daily.

[SouthernFriedInfidel]

Since the Queen is now on Facebook, it only seems right that the Pope join her. Who wouldn't want a chance to "poke" the Pope?

[A Person]

The internet along with testing has decreased personal interaction slills in older chilkdren and younger adults. I see this daily.

"internet along with testing" - WTF? What testing?

And WTF are "interaction slills"? Or "chilkdren" for that matter?

Are you trying to improve your case by demonstrating how the Internet is preventing you from engaging in meaningful discussions, responding intelligibly to straightforward questions and destroying your ability to spell?

[A Person]

Who wouldn't want a chance to "poke" the Pope?

What with?

[BecauseHeLives]

The internet along with testing has decreased personal interaction slills in older chilkdren and younger adults. I see this daily.

"internet along with testing" - WTF? What testing?

And WTF are "interaction slills"? Or "chilkdren" for that matter?

Are you trying to improve your case by demonstrating how the Internet is preventing you from engaging in meaningful discussions, responding intelligibly to straightforward questions and destroying your ability to spell?

Ok, my keyboard batteries need replacing.

[A Person]

Slop, your yokes are slilling me

But seriously - what did you mean by "internet along with testing"?

[BecauseHeLives]

Slop, your yokes are slilling me

But seriously - what did you mean by "internet along with testing"?

texting

I think testing is a very serious problem with younger people is that it seriously inhibits their interactive social skills.

[Liv]

B.S. that's propaganda. The "box", the isolation, is a result of western ideals (mostly American) that have come about primary due to capitalism not the bloody internet. France has internet, but you'll go and spend 5 hours eating with your friends at a cafe where-as Americans go-eat-and-go-home....

Has nothing to do with the internet.

[A Person]

I think testing (texting) is a very serious problem with younger people is that it seriously inhibits their interactive social skills.

I haven't seen that. And I expect it's been said about every advance in communication since Ug complained about this new fangled talking stuff instead of getting serious hair time.

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It was certainly said about the telephone when I was young.

Texting is just a different way of interacting socially

[BecauseHeLives]

I have seen it.

[A Person]

Are you sure it wasn't the hours spent in Sunday School while the pastor blurs the boundary between truth and illusion that caused their social ineptitude?

[Jamy]

Yes, the catholic church is rife with issues regarding sexual improprieties with children...I totally agree with that, but that doesn't make what he had to say any less true. I've always maintained that the internet, in general, is no place for children. I've seen enough disturbing crap online and know how easy it is for predators to find and prey on kids online to allow any unsupervised activity on the internet.

[A Person]

I've always maintained that the internet, in general, is no place for children.

I've always maintained that the church, in general, is no place for children. I've seen enough disturbing crap and know how easy it is for predators to find and prey on kids in churches to allow any unsupervised activity in a church.

My point is not that the Internet is perfectly safe, but that's the Pope's criticisms - especially the one about "blurring the boundary between truth and illusion" - are both false and hypocritical coming from someone whose profession is just that

[Jamy]

I've always maintained that the internet, in general, is no place for children.

I've always maintained that the church, in general, is no place for children. I've seen enough disturbing crap and know how easy it is for predators to find and prey on kids in churches to allow any unsupervised activity in a church.

My point is not that the Internet is perfectly safe, but that's the Pope's criticisms - especially the one about "blurring the boundary between truth and illusion" - are both false and hypocritical coming from someone whose profession is just that

Well I agreed with you that he was a hypocrite. But hypocrite or not, he had a point. Maybe if parents paid more attention to what their kids were doing in their churches AND on the internet, there would be fewer abuses for anyone to have to comment on.