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So, should cellphones be considered a vice? |
| I read this report the other day saying that some scientists (in Australia I believe?)are claiming that cellphone users may be more prone to becoming cancer patients in the near future.They claim that cellphones may even be a greater risk than cigarettes.Why?Because more people, including smokers and non-smokers alike, use cell phones.They say that they will do follow up studies around 2012 to see if their claims seem to be proving correct from the rate they are seeing people with both brain cancer and tumors now.While I take reports such as these with a grain of salt because, oh,?one day scientists such as these will tell you coffee is bad for you and not even your worst enemy should drink it and the next day they are praising coffee for its health benefits.But?these cellphone reports?do raise a question.Let me lay some groundwork.For many of my childhood years going to church I heard preachers say things like cigarettes and alcohol were a vice because they damaged your body.The scripture they would use was 1 Corinthians 6:19, which reads:
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| The scripture they would use was 1 Corinthians 6:19, which reads:
"What?know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?"These preachers arguement was that these products harmed the body.(Tobacco -- the lungs and throat.Alcohol -- the liver) Our body was a temple for God, they?d say, so we should not damage it through these "vices."Well, if these studies prove correct, I wonder if some preachers will begin to rail against cellphones for damaging the brain?Seems only fair.But probably not.Like most people in the general population, I doubt that most preachers of any denomination could function without one.And why should they?Most have never preached against Coca-Cola, Pepsi or other carbonated products for?damaging our kidneys. |
| Most have never preached against Coca-Cola, Pepsi or other carbonated products for?damaging our kidneys.Or sugar in general for causing dibetes.So, why should they rail against cellphones?They?ll continue to harp on their "candystick" messages against alcohol and tobacco to garner amens from the old fogey crowd while setting a double standard -- namely that it is okay to damage "God?s temple" as long as it isn?t with these certain?substances.Cellphones and carbonation?Eh, go kill yourself.If preachers would be more concerned with what their congregations are putting in their hearts than what they put in their mouths (or to their ears), more people might actually attend church services that have felt disgusted with the church "machine" in the past.They should take a lesson from (surprise, surprise!)Jesus Christ himself, and what he said about defilement (damaging) of the body:
"Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man." Matthew 15:11
Sounds like Jesus was more concerned about what came out of our mouths (our words) than what we put in.I think that he probably had it right. |
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