... God would have given us wings.

I have reflected a great deal over the last few months about technology and its overall effect on modern society. In general, I think we would agree that it is fantastic to be able to make a phone call on the go, stay in touch with old friends and family much less expensively on the internet while medical technology extends lives (almost indefinitely) and so on. However, there have also been some serious downsides.

For instance, there is a couple in our church who almost divorced because of an online role playing game. Pornography and lewdness has been staggeringly exponentiated as phrases like "I'd hit that!" have become acceptable vernacular instead being more appropriated relegated as the mutterings of perverted fools. Spouses sometimes know less about their significant others than their blogger buddies do, not to mention the people that you were glad to not be in touch with...

One can't even have a decent meal or watch a movie without a cell phone blaring in their ear. At my aunts funeral , a woman actually answered her phone and began a conversation during the service and at the SBC in San Antonio it seemed like anywhere I sat, someone was on a phone even in the middle of worship.