LEST we be overly charmed by the
allurements of the new
technologies, we have to strongly remind ourselves that technology,
just like anything else, should lead to God, and with God to everybody
and everything else.
There’s always a danger to be carried away by the many
advantages and conveniences the new technologies give us such that we
end up getting self-absorbed and self-seeking. We need to be guarded
against this clear and present danger.
Technology should lead us to God because first and last it
comes from God and also belongs to God. It is a tremendous expression
of God’s power and wisdom and can be a powerful way of giving him
glory and truly serving others and the common good. Sad to say, we can
see many instances when technology is used against what is truly good
for mankind.
We have to remember that whatever contribution we make in
discovering and inventing it can only spring from God’s laws of
nature. The raw materials and our creative power involved in making it
actually come from God. The very least thing we can do is to
acknowledge first of all this fact and to be most thankful.
This duty can be difficult nowadays because of our
secularized culture that ignores God in our human affairs. And that’s
why we need to exert effort to strongly and abidingly remind ourselves
of this fundamental truth.
Then, of course, we have to know how our technologies can
glorify and serve God and everybody else. We need to cultivate the
keen sense of how we can make our technologies play along the
providence of God.
They just cannot be used and enjoyed in any which way,
guided only by the criteria of practicability, profitability,
popularity and the like. This is sadly the prevailing mentality and
attitude, and we just have to know how to overcome and change it.
Right there in the homes and the schools, the proper
attitude toward technology should be imparted and continually
reinforced. We cannot deny the fact that nowadays there are many
factors that tend to undermine a healthy human and Christian
technological culture.
Everyone should be taught that everything, including our
technologies, should be offered to God. The technical requirements
involved in their use should be occasions for prayer and sacrifice,
and not just for our intelligence and talents to get stirred up and
hopefully develop. We need to overcome precisely this secularized
mentality.
It does not mean that we erase the distinction between the
sacred and the mundane, the spiritual and the material, the natural
and the supernatural. We actually cannot erase these distinctions
because they have their objective basis. But neither should we forget
their inherent connection and relation.
Let’s see to it that we remain truly human and Christian
as we immerse ourselves more and more in the technologies. What can be
observed, sad to say, is a trend toward getting less and less human
and Christian the more technology is used. We should correct this
anomaly!
technologies, we have to strongly remind ourselves that technology,
just like anything else, should lead to God, and with God to everybody
and everything else.
There’s always a danger to be carried away by the many
advantages and conveniences the new technologies give us such that we
end up getting self-absorbed and self-seeking. We need to be guarded
against this clear and present danger.
Technology should lead us to God because first and last it
comes from God and also belongs to God. It is a tremendous expression
of God’s power and wisdom and can be a powerful way of giving him
glory and truly serving others and the common good. Sad to say, we can
see many instances when technology is used against what is truly good
for mankind.
We have to remember that whatever contribution we make in
discovering and inventing it can only spring from God’s laws of
nature. The raw materials and our creative power involved in making it
actually come from God. The very least thing we can do is to
acknowledge first of all this fact and to be most thankful.
This duty can be difficult nowadays because of our
secularized culture that ignores God in our human affairs. And that’s
why we need to exert effort to strongly and abidingly remind ourselves
of this fundamental truth.
Then, of course, we have to know how our technologies can
glorify and serve God and everybody else. We need to cultivate the
keen sense of how we can make our technologies play along the
providence of God.
They just cannot be used and enjoyed in any which way,
guided only by the criteria of practicability, profitability,
popularity and the like. This is sadly the prevailing mentality and
attitude, and we just have to know how to overcome and change it.
Right there in the homes and the schools, the proper
attitude toward technology should be imparted and continually
reinforced. We cannot deny the fact that nowadays there are many
factors that tend to undermine a healthy human and Christian
technological culture.
Everyone should be taught that everything, including our
technologies, should be offered to God. The technical requirements
involved in their use should be occasions for prayer and sacrifice,
and not just for our intelligence and talents to get stirred up and
hopefully develop. We need to overcome precisely this secularized
mentality.
It does not mean that we erase the distinction between the
sacred and the mundane, the spiritual and the material, the natural
and the supernatural. We actually cannot erase these distinctions
because they have their objective basis. But neither should we forget
their inherent connection and relation.
Let’s see to it that we remain truly human and Christian
as we immerse ourselves more and more in the technologies. What can be
observed, sad to say, is a trend toward getting less and less human
and Christian the more technology is used. We should correct this
anomaly!
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