The Internet is not Evil, Any More than Fire is Evil

While it is true that the internet has given rise to an increased availability of evil influences, such as pornography and phishing, none of these things were brought about or created by the internet, and nothing forces us to be any more victims of these evils now, than we were forced to be before.

I am one who knows that the addictive powers of pornography are real and not something to be trifled with. Many good people have fallen prey to and lost all they had worked for in their lives simply because they took lightly the addictive power of pornography. When I say it is a real addiction, some may scoff at that, but there is ample evidence that the hold that it takes in the lives of the men and women it infects involves not merely their minds, but the chemical forces in the body that are by design, strong enough to drive men and women to extreme behaviors in all aspects of their lives.

There is no good that can come from an addiction to pornography, and it is not a suitable substitute for real human interaction and relations. In most cases, pornography gives men a sense of dissatisfaction with their own mates as time and life takes its toll on their bodies. Pornography offers an ongoing and purely unreal constant against which we inevitably compare our own aging bodies, and our spouses will rarely continue to measure up to such a standard of eternal youth. Eventually the damage done to a marriage is beyond repair and very often the damage does not stop at our marriages.

Still, in spite of the fact that the Internet has become a 24 hour full-open channel of these types of influences into our households, we are not any more now, than ever before, forced to be victims of it. We must be more vigilant as parents than ever before, and more aware of the protective tools available to us, to ensure our homes do not become a receptacle of the clumps of sewage that have made their way onto the information superhighway.

It has always been up to us and ever remains our challenge to learn new ways to defend against and warn about, the dangers of what is out there. It will never be a good idea to leave the entire defense in the hands of our government, duty-bound as they are to help.

Fire has awesome capabilities for good and evil, so also the atom, and more recently, the internet. No one will ever be able to defend your home as effectively as you, and God help us all if we are ever dispossessed of our freedoms to make that happen, in any realm of our existence.