garnering dirty looks everywhere

I get dirty looks, cyber or actual, often when I brush off the latest media scare as just a fenzy to be ignored for all intents and purposes. When pastors and the like flew into a frenzy over sexting a few months ago, I nodded my head and said, "Yeah, and?"

I see things quite simply: we live in a broken world. It is no more broken in 2009 than it was in 1624 or that it will be in 2391. Our relationships to each other are broken. Our image of God is muddled. We have poor understandings of needs and wants, love and sex, celebrating and flaunting. Because of our broken condition, we must expect that sin will find inventive ways to seep into our lives, the lives of teenagers, and of course the lives of men who live in their mother's basement.

It isn't that I don't care about the sin. Rather, I believe that we often hammer too heavily on the expression of the sin and avoid quite deftly the root cause of the behavior. Our reactionary behavior does little to create wholeness in the lives of the broken, only mounts to the list of things that we are against.

Perhaps my flippancy isn't the answer. But neither is reactionary hysteria.