Proper Gander

With regard to my previous post about atheistic buses in London (here). I just find it curious that that the atheistic message There's probably no God ... now stop worrying and enjoy your life. Should be taken seriously.
As if those who believe in God find that such belief causes worry and poor quality of life. Or that atheism enahnces one's quality of life (One only has to mention the word 'Stalin' to recognise that such an argument is ludicrous).
Most Christians (and I would imagine religious people in general) would probably claim that belief in God significantly enhances the human condition. Most 'outsiders' (and I use that word advisedly) seem to think that the life of faith is boring tedious and humourless. Strangely we insiders seem to think it is quite the reverse.

Facing the Book

The other day there was a special Facebook  event, called a "Day without Facebook".
It is an interesting concept, what is of particular interest to me is that our youngest daughter was the one who was keenest on it. She explained to me the reasons for ti as she had discovered them...that Facebook collects information about its users, that it then uses it to target advertise.....so she will always have lots of things about High School Musical and the Jonas Bros. To my mind this is not so invidious but she understood something of its significance...what we don't know can in fact be rather suspicious, may in fact be malicious and is almost certainly something more than we bargained for.
I rather think this is the nature of the world we live in, and has ever been so, it is called propaganda. It is not necessarily a bad thing. But we are right to be suspicious.
Dear old S did, I think, have a day without Facebook,  she spent it on My Space instead!

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