Respecting Christian family and friends

[thesummerqueen]

That is true. However, one problem with the internet is that a person self-censors what information he/she receives. So the internet can expose Christians to non-Christian ideas, but it can also insulate a Christian from non-Christian ideas.

This only works when someone is strictly controlled in their internet use. You'd have to have some extreme parental blocking. If you think being part of an uber-sect isolates people enough, try looking up porn statistics in Utah, the great state of Mormon, vs the rest of the country. Someone's not isolating themselves enough.

Too many other Christians have come out saying that curiosity led them to wander elsewhere or communicate with others and it led to more open-mindedness or deconversion.

I see the future of Christianity as scattered groups of isolated extremists. Maybe they will live together geographically in tiny Christian towns, or maybe they will insulate themselves through the internet. Maybe it will be a combination of the two.

I feel like you've been reading too many Hunger-Games-esque books.