Two-timing politicians, take note: cheating has never been easier. AshleyMadison.com, a personals site designed to facilitate extramarital affairs, now boasts slick iPhone and Blackberry versions that help married horndogs find like-minded cheaters within minutes. The new tools are aimed at tech-savvy adulterers wary of leaving tracks on work or home computers. Because the apps are loaded up from phones’ browsers, they leave no electronic trail that suspicious spouses can trace.
Even as public outrage boils up over the infidelity of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford and Nevada Senator John Ensign, millions of Americans are sneaking online to do some surreptitious cheating of their own.
Unlike Craigslist’s plain-Jane listings, AshleyMadison lets cheaters customize profiles, chat anonymously and trade messages about adulterous preferences ”” all in an effort to make cheating as simple as using Match.com.
The formula is working. AshleyMadison’s membership has doubled over the past year to 4 million.
Two weeks ago I preached on David and Bethsheba and this morning a parishioner handed this to me. Ugh. Read it all. (Hat tip: BR)
[blockquote]And for that, Biderman offers no apologies. “Humans aren’t meant to be monogamous,” he says. So would this free-thinking CEO mind if his own wife used his site? “I would be devastated,” he says.[/blockquote]
As Kendall says: Ugh!
So tell me how humans are evolving to be better and better? Maybe we can sin in more efficient ways, but that does not mean that humanity is any better that the humans of 5000 BC.
we discussed AshleyMadison last year: http://new.kendallharmon.net/wp-content/uploads/index.php/t19/article/15686
at least there is some honesty (and of course hypocrisy):
“Humans aren’t meant to be monogamous,” he says. So would this free-thinking CEO mind if his own wife used his site? “I would be devastated,” he says.
Oh gee, it’s always been easy and very lo tech; just look at someone the wrong way according to Jesus. Adultery 1.0 still works as it always did.
You can’t hide your tracks from God. This makes a bad situation much worse – getting caught at a mortal sin like adultery can have a salutary effect: the consequences of the sin in this life can lead a soul to repentance. Now, with apparently consequence-free adultery, the likelihood of repentance is even less. What is in the darkness will be brought into the light – so much better for adulterers for it to happen in this life than the next.
This is fresh Hell – woe to you, AshleyMadison.
Social desire meet unregulated market. Unregulated market meet desire.
Welcome to the next development in the Inclusive Church(TM), after polyamory, of course.
After all, aren’t we free from the illogical constraints of the Old Testament Law?? I mean, really, who’d seriously believe in all that dusty, patriarchal stuff, to say nothing of what that misogynistic homophobe Paul wrote about?
How else can I live into true self-actualization and fulfillment?? After all, didn’t God make me this way?
“Social desire meet unregulated market. Unregulated market meet desire.”
Yes, God made a big mistake in the garden of Eden when he set up the “unregulated” Tree. In his finite wisdom he forgot to place a government official and a jail cell next to it to prevent sin. Who needs the “unregulated market” of free will when a fascist form will keep us holy. A regulated market worked well for the communists. Let’s regulate the hell into ours here in the states.
“a regulated market worked well for the communists.”
The communists had markets? I thought there were no markets in communism.
Of course, an unregulated market worked well for us, didn’t it? 😉
However, I’m fascinated that you would toss out Romans 13:1 so easily. Interesting.
I’m always a bit perplexed when people can’t tell the difference between Norway (or Holland. Or France. Or Britain. Or Spain. Or Germany), and the Soviet Union. They have regulated markets.
I suppose its the nature or propaganda and sloganeering to take the extreme side.