Technology and Christian Culture

   Yesterday, a friend from our time in Virginia, put a link on his facebook page to a new book, written by a Dallas Seminary grad. The book was also free, and, as I just checked as of this moment it is still free. So if you are interested go here:

   http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005CQ2ZE6/ref=wms_ohs_product

   Anyway, from the book From the Garden to the City, by John Dyer, as he quotes Douglas Adams in his book, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where he grouped technology into three categories. "First, everything that's already in the world when you're born is just normal. Then anything that gets invented between then and before you turn thirty is incredibly exciting and creative and with any luck you can make a career out of it. Finally, anything that gets invented after you're thirty is against the natural order of things and the beginning of the end of civilization as we know it, until it has been around for about ten years when it gradually turns out to be alright really."

   Perhaps this is one of the reasons that I was so taken with the "dark" worship service that we had Sunday. Maybe I'm still working on that last 10 year cycle, but a lot of contemporary Christian music, with its strident beat and loud renditions, does not carry the same reverence and awe that the quieter, more traditional forms do, at least in an old persons point of view. I guess that is called being set in your ways.

   Then Dyer says, "The faster technology develops, and the less perspective we have, the more stratified our "myths" (defined as what we think of as normal), become".

   Now if this is all a little confusing, just bear in mind that I have just begun the book, and maybe I will understand it better by and by.

   The intersection of Christian culture and the development of new technologies will prove interesting to say the least.

   And that is something to think about......