Pastor Advises Congregation to Abandon Adulterous Social Net

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The Last Temptation of Facebook: Pastor Advises Congregation to Abandon Adulterous Social Network


By EMILY RAUHALA Emily Rauhala – Fri Nov 19, 11:20 am ET

Facebook makes it a tad too easy for 'friends' to become friends with benefits, a New Jersey pastor claims. That's why he's given his married staff an ultimatum: log-off, or lose your job.

Rev. Cedric Miller of New Jersey's Living Word Christian Fellowship Church says the social networking site is, essentially, a gateway to licentious living.

"What happens is someone from yesterday surfaces, it leads to conversations and there have been physical meet-ups. The temptation is just too great," he tells the Associated Press.

He says he's personally seen at least 20 couples hit the rocks, usually after one partner reconnects with an old flame online. (See Ten Reasons to Unfriend Someone on Facebook.)

To keep his flock on the path of righteousness, he's asked 50 Church employees to delete their accounts. Congregants, meanwhile, will be advised, but not forced, to do the same.

Extreme? Perhaps. But there is evidence to suggest Facebook is, in fact, a digital den of iniquity.

A report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project finds that at least one in five adults uses Facebook for flirting. One in five!

Typical, not giving any logical thought to things... facebook's no different from the real world in this sense, and because you have an entire state (strike that-- an entire world) condensed into a single internet domain, he's going to notice it more on facebook. I wouldn't assume facebook is even really more threatening to their beliefs than the outside world is.

This is coming from me, a Christian who thinks with just as much emotion as logic, and someone who doesn't even like facebook that much. But I don't really care all that much, despite my tone.

I think that is being excessive. A pastor that cannot control himself enough to have a simple chat with someone they haven't seen in a long time and leave things at that shouldn't be a pastor.

ya your probably right...he probably had a fb account and ran into an old flame and the devil imparted evil thoughts into his head (as if christians could be responsible for their own desires)
and in order to protect himself from his desires (evil thoughts) he has to make sure that there is not a working facebook account in his church, lest he be tempted to cheat on his wife.

See the women think about sex to. It takes two to tango.

I used to goto church school it was better then the ciaos of public school.

The only odd thing that was said there was how math class could turn into a bible lesson.

Deuteronomy, numbers and Leviticus.

The temptations of the devil are everywhere even within. So everyone is the devil cause they think about naughty things.

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There goes fighting temptations...

Luckely we have Satan to blame when we do give in .

hmmm, maybe Mark Zuckerberg is controlled by Satan to do his evil biddings and thus has created Facebook to destroy the sanctity of marriage! *SHREEKS*

ya who needs gay marriage when all we need is facebook