Social media sanctified by the BBC?
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 by Jon Clements
PR Media Blog, when it comes to religion, is at the very least agnostic and certainly non-denominational.
But when the venerable institution of BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day talks social media, quotes Mark Zuckerberg and namechecks YouTube, we simply have to listen.
There’s no doubt that TFTD has divided opinion, with Christians championing the need for religious broadcasting while humanists and atheists urging the broadcaster to do less, if any, God at all.
But, sometimes, the chosen TFTD speaker manages to harness the zeitgeist and build a meaningful connection between faith and a modern, technological world, seemingly indifferent to the church.
Read here or listen to here what the Rev Dr David Wilkinson says about social media and the importance of relationships.
Could social media be the saviour of religion or, ultimately, become its replacement? To paraphrase Karl Marx, could social media be the new opium of the people?
