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Re: Conspiracy - NWO, NASA and More
By: patrick jane Date: May 20, 2020, 12:56 am
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By: patrick jane Date: June 2, 2020, 9:58 am
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By: patrick jane Date: June 11, 2020, 10:22 am
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Conspiracy Theories, Engaging Online, and Wisdom: The
Intersection of the Three and How to Respond Biblically
While social media offers amazing opportunities to connect and
learn, it seems that every new day brings new stories of
awfulness.
One of the things I love about living in a major city like
Chicago is that if I miss the train into the city I don’t have
to wait long for the next one. Unfortunately, the same is true
of examples of bad behavior on social media. While social media
offers amazing opportunities to connect and learn, it seems that
every new day brings new stories of awfulness. Baptizing the
quote often ascribed to Churchill: the greatest argument against
humanity’s inherent goodness is five minutes scrolling through
the average social media feed.
In recent months this tendency has only increased. Since Ed and
I wrote an editorial for the Dallas Morning News on the
importance of church leaders’ discipling their people on social
media habits, multiple controversies have erupted. Most often
these have revolved around conspiracy theories being promoted
about the motivations and actions of the protests.
Given the enduring importance of conspiracy theories, I want to
circle back to some of the criticism of the DNS article before
focusing on few preliminary suggestions on how Christians can
begin to think through healthy online habits.
The Problem of the Media
Several responses to my article in the Dallas Morning News
pointed out that their suspicion of mainstream media outlets
often arises from clear incidents of bias in their reporting.
This is fair criticism.
The reality is that the state of reporting on religion—and
particularly in reporting on evangelicalism—is quite poor. Major
outlets get obvious facts wrong about simple beliefs that
betrays both a lack of knowledge about the material they’re
reporting on and a laziness to not search out the answer.
Google examples of where outlets have tried to define
“Calvinism” and you’ll find answers that range from simplistic
to malicious caricatures. It is not hard to pick up the phone
and call a pastor or seminary professor for help, but this is
somehow deemed not important.
More distressingly, some outlets seem intent upon pointing to
outliers as examples of evangelical behavior while ignoring the
wide majority. This was evident in March when outlets focused on
churches and pastors who defied shelter-at-home orders and tried
to pawn miracle cures for the virus.
Literally thousands of pastors led the way on closing their
churches and serving their communities, often at significant
personal loss, but these were obscured.
Going Too Far
What becomes problematic is when critics of the mainstream media
use these examples to push Christians to dismiss all journalism.
This is often to the benefit of fringe, sometimes
religiously-informed news outlets who feed a narrative that
Christians are victims of a conspiracy and only they hold the
truth.
Having acknowledged the failures in journalism, it is critical
that Christians resist the temptation to reject mainstream
reporting altogether. This is a critical mistake that leads us
down the pathway to isolation whereby we invalidate any news
article we find unfavorable.
Moreover, there are good journalists in major outlets, even
religion journalists who strive to understand and report on
evangelicalism in all fairness. At times, this leads them to our
failures, but in other cases they want to detail the nuance and
complexity within the movement. I might not always agree with
them, but I respect their integrity and desire to report
honestly.
This all-or-nothing mentality also suggests a poor understanding
of Christian engagement. Our goal should be a maturity to engage
the new reporting of our time with a critical eye rather than to
shout bias upon seeing the outlet logo. We need to read
critically across a wide range, accepting hard truths that are
well supported rather than if they support our political or
cultural narrative. We need to resist our temptations to echo
chambers; a temptation that is common to many other subcultures
across the globe.
Taking Steps
One of the frustrating takeaways from articles on social media
is how they can often have great data or insights on to why and
how our online platforms are useful and/or destructive but they
can leave the reader at a dead end. After outlining the problem,
they can often leave people with little insight into how to
respond.
Even as they seem indispensable, social media platforms are new
and healthy habits remain unclear. In this respect, I believe
that the book of James offers a few preliminary insights in
thinking through our online presence.
Lesson One: Is Christ Lord of your social media?
At first glance, this is an easy question. Anyone who’s gone
through Sunday School will be quick to say that Christ is Lord.
Indeed, their social media profile says “Christian” and likely
includes a bible verse or two. But Christ being Lord of your
social media is less a matter of what your profile says and more
a matter of what you say and how you relate to others.
Just like wearing WWJD bracelets in the 1990s did not qualify,
social media profiles can be misleading and even destructive if
the heart behind them is not submitted to Christ.
In the Dallas Morning News piece, I paraphrased James 3:11-12 in
saying that out of the same social media account cannot come
professions of the risen Christ and accusations of #pizzagate.
My point was, building on James, that Christians need to
recognize that they cannot separate their Christian witness from
their political posts.
How we speak to one another, the kinds of stories we elevate,
and the language we choose all flow out of this question of
lordship.
Lesson Two: Ask for Wisdom
I love that James opens with the encouragement for Christians to
ask for wisdom. That James leaves it opened ended (“If any of
you lacks wisdom, let him ask God…”) is designed to provoke in
the heart of the believer the obvious response that we all lack
wisdom.
Indeed, later in James the author circles back to this this
theme: “Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good
conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom. But if
you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do
not boast and be false to the truth.”
In a climate where truth is often secondary, we would do well to
ask God for wisdom in navigating not only what we should read
but what we should post. Moreover, we need to recognize how our
casualness regarding the truth and brash arrogance are symptoms
of rebellion not qualities to be admired. If you are uncertain
during this time, bring your need before God in prayer.
Into this, James reminds us that God “gives generously to all
without reproach.” If you are struggling to know who to listen
to, start with prayer.
Lesson Three: Hit Pause
One of the central lessons of James that social media tends to
warp is the importance of being “quick to listen, slow to speak,
slow to anger” (1:19). The pace of our news cycles and our
exchanges make it nearly impossible to hold off. We think it’s
necessary to let others see how angry we are about something
someone did or said.
Even as my column encouraged Christians to hear this
encouragement and hit pause, it is stunning how quickly we can
rush past James’ warning and fire away on social media.
Long ago, my father taught me one of the most valuable lessons
when email was still relatively new: never send an angry email.
Save it in your drafts and pray on it for at least 24 hours. I
currently have dozens of saved emails from the past decade that
I wrote in anger but held off on sending.
In some cases, God resolved the situation without my anger; in
others, he gave me peace despite a lack of resolution. In every
case, I realized that the email would only satisfy my rage and
they remain in my drafts as testimonies to the wisdom in James.
It is critical that we understand that just because we’re behind
a screen, this does not absolve us from James’ warning regarding
anger. Instead, let me encourage you to adopt a similar practice
as with my emails: if you’re going to tweet or post something in
anger, bitterness, or mean spiritedness, save in your drafts and
give it 24 hours.
Let God’s Spirit speak to you about whether the situation really
needs this message. At its core, this willingness to submit our
anger to God’s voice is a testament that, going back to lesson
one, Christ is the Lord of our social media.
Andrew MacDonald is associate director of the Wheaton College
Billy Graham Center Institute.
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