Religious Life, Technology, and Control

Here's a great post on how technology impacts our lives.

A preview:

Christians will have to be focused and deliberate about moderating and perhaps removing some of this ever-present background noise. If we are to be thinking people, people who think deeply and deliberately about spiritual matters, we simply cannot allow our lives to be overshadowed by the noise of technology.
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It may be as simple as escapism.
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Perhaps we use technology to hide. Maybe we hate to be alone with our thoughts.

Dim View

What's your view of human nature?

Conservatives know America isn't perfect, of course. But they grade on a curve. Partly that's because they generally take a dimmer view of human nature than do their counterparts on the left.

-Peter Beinart in "The State of Patriotism"