why have christians, throughout history, been against technological development??

Question

for them cinema, telephone, television, computers, internet in their moment were evil devices??
when are they going to learn to be a little bit more cautious when speaking about something they dont know.
dont criticize whatever you are going to end up buying and enjoying

Answer 1

i dunno ... maybe they see the dangers that they may bring ... i personally love technology although i think our govt has plans to tag bag and monitor everyone with it ...still i love electronics and mechanical advances ...

Answer 2

Well let's see, all of these men were Christians. Some were scientists, some were artists:

Sir Frances Bacon
Robert Boyle
George Washington Carver
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Nicolaus Copernicus
Leonhard Euler
Michael Faraday
Johannes Kepler
Father Georges-Henri LeMaitre
Carolus Linnaeus
Matthew Fontaine Maury
James Clerk Maxwell
Gregor Mendel
Samuel F. D. Morse
Sir Isaac Newton
Blaise Pascal
Louis Pasteur
Sir James Young Simpson, Founder of gynecology and modern anesthesiology
Nicolaus Steno, Father of Stratigraphy
Johann Sebastian Bach
J. R. R. Tolkien
T. S. Eliot
Rembrandt van Rijn
Antonio Vivaldi
Georg Friedrich Handel
Van Gogh
Antonin Dvorak
Alessandro Manzoni
Felix Mendelssohn
Leo Tolstoy
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Michaelangelo
Isaak Levitan

Presently, there is a huge list of scientists who oppose Darwin:
http://www.dissentfromdarwin.org

Tom

Answer 3

I don't know where you get your information from but the only "Christians" I know of who were against technological development were those who ruled the church in Rome and they were against anything that went against what they claimed the Bible said, whether the Bible really said it or not.

Christians throughout the centuries have been working and contributing to the different fields of technology. Do you think that the men who invented the telephone and television were not Christians or at least had made a profession of faith?

Here's a link for you if you want to learn more about Christian contributors to science and technology.

http://www.tektonics.org/scim/sciencemony.htm

Scientists of the Christian Faith: A Presentation of the Pioneers, Practitioners and Supporters of Modern Science

Answer 4

I am a Christian, and I have been for several years. I have a television, a radio, cell phones, and a computer. I see nothing wrong with these things, and the Christians I know agree with me. With these technological advances do come the opportunities for evil, such as the t.v. using pornographic images etc., but it can also bring about ministries to reach people for Jesus. The evil comes from the user, not the device.

Answer 5

Face it Alberto there is great evil in the examples you have given. True great good can be seen as well, but evil seems to be the constant. Even if we did not have these inventions the world would still move on as it has for centuries.

You should take your own advice and quit criticizing those that try to warn people of the evils that are about to plague the average Joe (and Joe an't two brigt yno?)

Answer 6

That is a made-up statement/question if I ever saw one. Christians have never been against technological development. The only thing Christians speak-out about is using technology for sinful purposes. Taking something good and useful, and turning it into something misguiding and hurtful is not only a sin, but shameful in itself. Just like your question here.

Answer 7

The catholic church saw themselves as the source for all knowledge. This worked out pretty well for about 1500 years, when there was a limited amount of new knowledge being shared.

there's still a bit of that remaining in their psyches.

Answer 8

☼ alberto, look around; where do all modern technologies come from? Christian world mostly! And Christians are not against ‘evil devices’, they are concerned how we use them!

Answer 9

Could be answered in many different ways, but, bottom line...it's because those things have a tendency to pull the mind and Spirit away from God.

Answer 10

Not all Christians are represented by those who are in their religion. Not everyone in a religion thinks exactly the same.

Have a good day.

Answer 11

Because being "simple" has always been their thing. I mean if you read the bible it's all about being simple and listening to and doing what the church wants you to do oh yah and paying your income to the church.Do you really think we were just blown into existence? If you do then you have picked the "simple" answer to the question of our existence.