How the Internet is Killing American Christianity

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, the information age of technology will be the end of conservatism as we know it. To be clear, not the end of Church, the end of conservatism. It has and will continue to reveal indiscriminate acts of oppression on the individual and institutional levels. Exposing the fact that the local evangelical pastor’s career is no longer safe, the seminary professor’s tenure is worthless, all the while the future of the local pastor is at best bi-vocational.

I’ll go ahead and claim it, the future of the American Church is seen in England or Germany (more on this later).  The information age I think will have the same effects to that of the enlightenment.

Understandably so, pastors and institutional leaders are beginning to become more and more nervous, as it was recently seen through “Financial Guru” Dave Ramsey and Mars Hill founding pastor Mark Driscoll. On the smaller and more localized levels, there are various other pastors being publicly accused of abuse and maltreatment by former employees and/or congregants. These vigilante cyber attacks will continue to be carried out by wounded, hurt, and angry victims marred by institutionalized violence.

“Leakers used to need a name and face to be credible. That may no longer be the case.” – C. Fred Alford