Musing 183

When I went to a Ligonier conference a couple of years ago, one of the roundtable discussions had a question that lead to a brief aside about the most spiritually significant events of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

While the answers given were great, one thing conspicuously missing (in my estimation at least) was a passing over of the internet and increasing access to information.

On the one hand, the mere increased access to theological material clearly hasn’t visibly improved society by and large. And from a Reformed perspective this makes sense. While there has been vast benefits to those who do look for solid material, myself being one such example of a person whose walk has been immensely impacted positively, there’s a dark inverse to this.

With the rise of the internet, people who had . . . uncommon struggles now had a place to find people who could confirm them in their sin. Instead of certain sins being moved beyond, outgrown, or suppressed in shame, people now could find others who would tell them “oh, I enjoy that same sin as well, why don’t we find more”.

And society has felt the impact of that rise in darkness ever since. As we increasingly see the demand to accept sinfulness as normative and good, we will see the blatant throw off of historic Christian morality.

May God’s mercy and grace grant us societal repentance.