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A New Jersey pastor is asking married members at his church to delete their Facebook accounts because he says it encourages adultery.
The Rev. Cedric Miller of Neptune made the demand after 20 couples at his church ran into difficulties after a spouse reunited with an old love interest, the Los Angeles Times reported in an article.
The article, which quotes an Associated Press story, says Miller had asked married couples in his church to share their Facebook passwords with spouses, but couples still ran into problems.
Miller, pastor at the Living Word Christian Fellowship church, says he’s now demanding that 50 married church leaders delete their Facebook accounts or resign.
Anthea Butler, a columnist with Religion Dispatches magazine, says Miller is invoking an old theme in fundamentalist and conservative churches: that any new media - like movies, television and radio - is sinful.
What is interesting to me is that the conservative Christian cry used to be stop watching porn on the internet, or your kids would be pimped out on the internet by perverts. Now, social media has become the latest “sinful” activity.
Still, Butler in her column entitled, “Facebook: Internet Highway to Hell,” says she could sympathize with the pastor.
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As one who developed feelings for a person over Facebook chat, I can say that it is one of many avenues that Satan can use to try to trip you up. However, if my marriage hadn't already been having some very real issues that left me feeling hurt and lonely, I would never have let that attachment happen, and if it hadn't happened over Facebook, it would likely have happened in some other way.
The person I developed an attachment to is now still a friend, but one that I rarely speak to. I never allowed it to get to the point of adultery, and I cut off all contact for quite a while once I realized how attached I'd become, because an affair was never what was in my heart. I think you personally witnessed this... because you do know me and this other person... and I think you got off of facebook because of witnessing this.
My opinion on Facebook? It is a tool that can be used for evil or for good, and because we humans have sinful nature, it is often used for evil.
However, it is also used for good. I've witnessed for several people on online groups over Facebook. I've reconnected with family I had lost contact with and had no idea where to find until Facebook.
Like anything, it can be abused, it can over used. I have done both.
Please forgive me if I offended you by my past actions... I was caught off guard... and I sinned in allowing myself to get inappropriately attached in the first place. I have repented now, and now I am guarding my heart both on Facebook and everywhere else.
My husband and I have worked on our marriage, and I feel it is strong now... but I will never take that for granted again.
I kept this anonymous, but I think you'll know who I am.
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