Here
is a misconception that MUST be focused on.
We
are
all
familiar
with
the
widespread
Internet
pornography
viewed
by
some
men
and
boys.
But
when
was
the
last
time
you
heard
about
the
teenagers
who
build
the
websites
that
market
such
garbage?
It
couldn’t
be—not
teenagers!
Yes,
teenagers!
Encourage
your pastor to warn your congregation from behind the pulpit that
there are no computer filters, nor schemes that completely make any
personal computer Internet-safe. An issue of Consumers Reports gave a
blistering presentation about the ineffectiveness of computer
Internet filters.
The
unbiased testing of Consumers Reports placed the top ten smut filters
as being from 85% to 10% effective. The biggest difficulty
encountered in the study was defining exactly what is ‘obscene’.
How can a mechanical or software filter be created that would be
smart enough to block out pictures of an aborted fetus?
Microprocessors
and hard drives have no ability to make wholesome judgments for us.
But with the aid of the Internet and repetition, our values – our
judgments of what is positive for us, becomes more clouded and
diminished at the good pleasure of the prince of this world –
Satan.
Though
Internet garbage graphics are not aimed just at men and boys – they
should, however, be leaders among their peers with God-honoring
actions.
