Does Social Media Cheapen the Bible?

We should be concerned about how our sinful hearts may seize Scripture in one hand and the social internet in the other.

In Amusing Ourselves to Death Neil Postman wrestles with the televangelism phenomenon that was sweeping the United States in the 1980s. The entire premise of Amusing is that different media may not be appropriate for certain messages. Much of Postman’s concern is with the ways in which television was trivializing everything from news to politics, and ho…