JohnJ_10_Q

This is going to touch some ethical questioning so disclaimer (I do not feel this way or wish to offend anyone). And I don't know how I ended up talking about this from this chapter but it came to me while reading it... so i guess its relevant.

As the number of digital natives increases and the line between edited news and armature news starts to vanish, are we by example teaching our children to question everything they read or listen to or are we teaching them to become open-sponges and believe everything?

Here's a story for both sides on the topic of religion.

First, my little brother went away to a week long church camp. It wasn't though our church's demomonation but he did go with a few kids from our church. After he came back, he kept telling mom and dad how we was seeing demons on our house. Needless to say we were shocked and worried. After some digging, the church camp daily did an hour long "celebration" in which they stood and sang songs while the kids one at a time announced that they saw the holy spirit and were touched by it. It reminded me of this video called "Jesus Camp".
Though storytelling they were spinning these kids stories and the bible stories to make them become neo-christians. Scary it was but after everything was done he's for the most part back to "normal."

Second, as young adults and the political events of today, I find that more and more people of this age group questioning everything they read or are told with religion being one of them. With this negative storytelling old-traditionalized religions are pushing younger people away and more and more of them are joining community churches or stop participating in religion altogether. Media then spins these facts and calls America stupid or devalued or on its way to its demise. (this is starting to sound like the fox "news" channel)

Sorry if your lost, I am a bit to, but hey isn't that what class discussion is for? I admit I like to raise these controversial questions, but I do because I want to hear how people feel from both sides.

Final Thought is this anything new? (think the 50's cool dudes, the 60's hippies, the 80's rock groups, the 90's rap groups, the 00's you tubers? )