religion and and in our tradition imam
al-ghazali and this is also probably
from Gregory but Aquinas brings up the
daughters of lust and a mortal sin is a
habitual sin it's something that you do
habitually a lot of people are addicted
to pornography but which is a habitual
sin of lust and being in a state of lust
the the daughters of lust
they're called Bennett o shahe ye in the
Arabic tradition the daughters of lusts
one of them it is is as spiritual
blindness another is distracted
distracted 'no cecilia distractibility
but one of them is is hatred towards the
things sacred and and despairing of God
or animosity towards God and so I think
people don't realize the connection that
we're seeing in our culture that's
directly related to a completely
sexualized civilization if you want to
read a really I think an important
pamela paul that exposed me to a lot of
this she wrote a book called pornified
this is a secular liberal woman who
found out about this world and wrote a
book about how devastating and i don't
think a lot of people realize what's
online and what people exposed to chris
hedges his second chapter in one of his
books goes into graphic detail about
what what young kids are exposed to
today that i think you will have the
last word mmm-hmm
first of all if you want to see what
could be done through this technology go
and look at our website we're working on
this one earlier and we're experimenting
with new forms whiteboard animation
short videos with music and imagery to
create moments of spirituality of myths
and so on and in terms of sexuality
there was a book a couple of years ago
in the states by somebody who became an
orthodox jewish woman just because she
wanted to recover the integrity of a
physical relationship Wendy Shelley
Wendy shallots book modesty and it's a
really good book the three positive
possibilities of this technology are
number one Sergey Brin and Larry Page
his commitment to the democratization of
access to knowledge that is so powerful
the countries that never really had
access to good education and kids who
never had it now have access to it
number two
Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook has just
changed the mission statement of
Facebook from connecting friends to
creating communities and it was very
interesting the Mark Zuckerberg and
what's her name Sheryl Sandberg both on
our holy day Yom Kippur sent out
religious messages as committed Jews and
I had never seen that actually in public
before so they too are beginning to
realize that they must be responsible
for making sure that things like
Facebook help preserve our basic human
and spiritual
values and I think the third thing is is
simply that you know we are connected
together in a way that no human beings
ever have then Facebook is just about
habits boom its first 30 years it now
reaches 2 billion people just think of
this 2 billion people have the chance to
be rude to one another but I mean very
quick what if we seized that and said we
are going to counter the bad that's out
there and there's a lot that's bad by
showing that the good is really
beautiful life enhancing and inspiring
we can use this technology for the sake
of God and if we don't God will not
forgive us because he gave us this
technology so that it would serve us to
serve Him thank you one more brief last
word from from Robbie Jordan and that
list Lord is simply thank you thanks to
all of you for coming out and being part
of launching our new initiative I also
want to say a big thank you to Dean
Hibbs and to Byron Johnson and the
entire Baylor community cannot tell you
how honored I am to be associated with
this initiative and then finally thanks
to my two beloved friends the busiest
men in the world who made a special
effort to be here to help us launch this
this community and I love you guys and
thank you so so very very much
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