Religious Propaganda Using Social Media?

None of us could actually, at the very first thought consider a relation between religion and the progress technology has made in the field of social media, but it is time we gave it a thought.

The growing use of social media in spreading religious propaganda has strengthened the belief that churches have taken social media as a resort to get widely known.

A digital advertising agency which basically deals with matters related to Christianity, Buzzplant, has conducted a survey which shows that 30% of the churches use social networking sites to put up their religious propaganda, and they do it often, while almost 15% do not show any such use. Close to half of the surveyed churches maintain that social media has tremendous appeal to people in this era, and around 25% were found to never use such networking sites.

This brings on us to think and discuss whether the social networking sites have made so strong an impact or religion has lost its impact on people. Probably, as more matter for study comes out, people have started to find flaws or doubt how genuine a religion is?

What is your take on this?

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This is an interesting and might I say, complicated subject? It takes in several different topics actually. For starters, one has to grow and change along with the times, or face being left behind or just left out completely. Back when we stopped using horses and carriages, those buggy whip manufactoring plants had to figure out that they could no longer make buggy whips, and it was either switch over to manufactoring something related to cars instead of the old horse and buggy or go out of business. Those smart enough to switch over to making seat covers or fixing tires survived and those that didn't were left behind. So it is no wonder that churches are gearing up to take advanage of social media. If they want to remain in the face of the public, that is where they have to be. But as to the subject of social media sites, I assume you mean those like facebook or twitter, while churches may promote themselves at those kind of sites, their end game is to fill up the pews in the church. As it should be. And there is no comparison to having hundreds of Facebook "friends" who will type out a snappy responce on their computers if you are sad or in trouble in comparison to a whole congragation of real human beings that will physically come to your aid when you are in trouble. I can't see social media taking over where the church is concerned. Physical contact between humans is sorly needed in this day and age when everyone is hidden behind a computer screen. Chatting online with a friend cannot take the place of meeting that same friend in a restuarant and having a real visit over a sit down dinner and actually interacting face to face. There is just no comparison.