"It's been a long time, where the land will be girded with a thread" is one of the most well-known prophecies of Patro-Cosmas of Aitolos, which until recently was believed to……..
The internet is now intertwined with every field and manifestation of individual and collective reality, and has radically overturned established ideas and methods of information, communication, education and daily practice, to such an extent that today's humanity is experiencing the third in a row, after Agriculture and Industrial, revolution, the IT revolution, which changed the course of History and the way of viewing reality, offering man countless possibilities and at the same time leading him down dangerous paths.
Of course the Church, which always proceeded dialectically through History, hiring but also transforming the world, especially in conditions of globalization, whether it was then about the Roman empire or whether it is about today's globalization of markets and uniform and monotonous lifestyles, treats this development positively, considering that she has at her disposal yet another gift of God, a global one,now pulpit, through whom and from whom the word of Salvation is preached.
On the other hand, Nevertheless, with the spread of the internet, yellowing and mudslinging became even more acute, propaganda and slander, as each was given an uncontrolled pitch of expression, the only limitation of which is the conscience and responsibility of the user.
Wandering around the blogs, sometimes we are at the core of an emergency and’ this convincing need for critical commentary and in the very next moment we may launch into’ a gloomy river of intemperance, misinformation, mental fogginess, in which disturbed souls "swim"., problematic personalities, deprived and destitute people, manipulated and manipulated.
There are many who question whether and to what extent one is free to write whatever,what he wants on the internet, tarnishing faces and perceptions of the living and the dead, violating every rule of moral conduct, of human decency and, of course, the law.
Although to what extent the unabashed Hebrewology is a sample of "untamed mind" and "orthodox confession", the peddling of every outrageous slander and slander, although to what extent freedom has meaning, without its responsibility to protect human dignity, of this truth, which is desecrated under the pretext of anonymity or pseudonymity…
And what can it be, is it?, anonymity serves today, which could only be justified for reasons of protecting the user from an authoritarian and malicious power;
The indecency of anonymity certainly won't last long, but sooner or later logic will prevail and legality will prevail.
Until then, inevitably, the insolent will be built up and the honest will endure… And they will await the moment when e-waste finds its place in the e-dump!
(From the Saturday insert of "Democracy" for Orthodoxy – Republished romfea.gr)