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Patrick Donohue EDFL 675 Below is a link to my personal vision statement. [|Personal Vision.doc]

@Patricks Journal

submitted by Patrick Donohue
 * Project**
 * People of Faith and the Internet: Finding Common Ground in Our Search for Virtuous Living on the World Wide Web**
 * EDFL 675**

I am working independently on this project. The theme of this project has changed a bit since I don't wish to label people as either virtuous or gracefull or campassionate, but for the sake of expediency Virtous Tecnology Users or VTU's can be synonymous with “people of faith using the net”. These people come from all walks of life and may be of different religions or cultures but as we will see, many of us share a core set of beliefs in common. This project is driven by four questions.


 * 1) How should a Virtous Technology User (VTU) respond to the perceived unethical and immoral direction that the World Wide Web (WWW) may be moving towards.
 * 2) What responsibilities do people of faith have on line in guiding the world community towards a moral, ethical, respectful and faithfull direction.
 * 3) What are some of the common ethical beliefs that VTU's possess.
 * 4) What is your own faith and how will you respond to a perceived lack of ethics and morality on the internet.

The form of this project is still a scholarly paper of sorts which has evolved into a questionaire and reflection paper. The intended audience for this paper is any person of faith who uses the internet VTU, however, the Christaian world is investigated more than other religions due to the nature of our sylubus in this course. In fact the title of this course EDFL 675b is Faith learning Seminar: Christaians in a Networked World. This writer respects people of all faiths with a sincere ecumenical spirit, however, for the sake of this course the Christaian aspects of VTU's are the focus. Henceforth the audience will often be reffered to as “we” since the intended audience of this presentation are indeed VTU's Anyone who does not consider themselves to be a VTU, raise your hand. The media of this project still remains printed form and may evolve into another format.

The theme of this project is a reflection and response to Scultze's book, __Habits of The High Tech Heart__. In his book the author establishes without question that VTU's face inumerable challenges to their moral fiber and their code of ethics on a daily basis. If you do not think the intenet and cyber technology challenge or moral values please raise your hand. Once we have established our common ground set of beliefs from a world christian view via a questionnaire, we will investigate what our role is in this virtual world. Do we share the belief that their are perceived threats to our lives on the internet? Are there aspects of our moral and virtous lives that are challenged in a negative way? Can we discuss possible solutions to a possible pro-active response? The purpose of this project is to identify, analyze and possibly propose approaches to ethical and moral dillemmas associated with internet communication. The working hypothesis here is that there are moral and ethical ramifications resulting from the current trend towards interent assimilation into the core of humanities culture.
 * Theme**
 * Purpose**
 * Problem**


 * Approach to the Problem/Sequence of Events**
 * A christaian and humanitarian world view questionaire
 * A few questions about your own faith and it's characteristics

After reflecting on the worlds view and your own, what would the Gracefull Christian response be to our problem today. If the working hypothesis is likely true, what proactive measures, if any, could be offered.
 * Solution/Response**

As leaders in our respective communities, and as people of faith, we have a responsibility to our fellow members to be vigilant, proactive and respectful with respect to interent use.
 * Reasoning**


 * Reflection**
 * Question and Answer Reflection Session**

Human Rights Questionnaire
Are all human beings born free and equal in dignity and rights? Are they endowed with reason and conscience and should they act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood? Does everyone have the right to life, liberty and security of person? Should anyone evr be held in slavery or servitude? Should anyone be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment? Does everyone have the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law? Is everyone equal before the law and entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. Are all are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination? Does everyone have the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating their fundamental rights? Should anyone be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile? Is everyone entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him? Shall anyone be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Does everyone have the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks? Does everyone have the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state? Does everyone have the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country? Does everyone have the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution. Does everyone have the right to a nationality? Are Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution? Should Marriage be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses. Is the family the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is it entitled to protection by society and the State? Does everyone have the right to own property alone as well as in association with others? Shall anyone be arbitrarily deprived of his property?
 * 1)  Is everyone entitled to and freedom without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status?

Does everyone have the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance? Does everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers? Does everyone have the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association? Shall anyone be compelled to belong to an association.? Does everyone have the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives? Does everyone have the right of equal access to public service in his country? Shall the will of the people be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures? Does everyone, as a member of society, have the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality? Does everyone have the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against uanemployment? Does everyone, without any discrimination, hve the right to equal pay for equal work? Does everyone who works have the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection? Does everyone have the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests? Does everyone have the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay? Does everyone have the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.? Are Motherhood and childhood entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection? Does everyone have the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit? Should education be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace? Do parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children?

Does everyone have the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits? Does everyone have the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author? Does everyone have duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible? Shall in the exercise of his or her rights and freedoms, everyone be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

Ok, that's the end of the human rights questions. Does anyone know where these questions come from?

That's right, they are from: __[]__
 * THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, ADOPTED STATEMENT, of 1948, THE UNITED NATIONS **

We may have now established some common ground with the rest of the freedom loving world, now how about the World Council of Churches.

The first Assembly at Amsterdam adopted a resolution on "the authority of the Council" which read: The World Council of Churches is composed of churches which acknowledge Jesus Christ as God and Saviour. They find their unity in him. They do not have to create their unity; it is the gift of God. But they know that it is their duty to make common cause in the search for the expression of that unity in work and in life. The Council desires to serve the churches which are its constituent members as an instrument whereby they may bear witness together to their common allegiance to Jesus Christ, and cooperate in matters requiring united action. But the Council is far from desiring to usurp any of the functions which already belong to its constituent churches, or to control them, or to legislate for them, and indeed is prevented by its constitution from doing so. Moreover, while earnestly seeking fellowship in thought and action for all its members, the Council disavows any thought of becoming a single unified church structure independent of the churches which have joined in constituting the Council, or a structure dominated by a centralized administrative authority. The purpose of the Council is to express its unity in another way. Unity arises out of the love of God in Jesus Christ, which, binding the constituent churches to him, binds them to one another. It is the earnest desire of the Council that the churches may be bound closer to Christ and therefore closer to one another. In the bond of his love, they will desire continually to pray for one another and to strengthen one another, in worship and in witness, bearing one another's burdens and so fulfilling the law of Christ. __[]__
 * World Council of Churches Questionaire**
 * WCC-** __**www.oikoumene.org**__
 * Do you confess the Lord Jesus Christ as God and Saviour?**
 * Do you believe in the writings of the New Testament?**
 * Do you believe that you are harkened to the calling of the glory of the one God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit?**
 * More on the WCC**

__[|**http://www.oikoumene.org/en/who-are-we.html**]__

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African Church__ __Toraja Church__ __Union of Baptist Churches in Cameroon__ __Union of the Armenian Evangelical Churches in the Near East__ __Union of Welsh Independents__ __United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands__ __United Church in Papua New Guinea__ __United Church in the Solomon Islands__ __United Church of Canada__ __United Church of Christ__ __United Church of Christ - Congregational in the Marshall Islands__ __United Church of Christ in Japan__ __United Church of Christ in the Philippines__ __United Church of Christ in Zimbabwe__ __United Church of Zambia__ __United Congregational Church of Southern Africa__ __United Evangelical Lutheran Church__ __United Evangelical Lutheran Church in India__ __United Free Church of Scotland__ __United Methodist Church__ __United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast__ __United Presbyterian Church of Brazil__ __United Protestant Church__ __United Protestant Church of Belgium__ __United Reformed Church__ __Uniting Church in Australia__ __Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa__ __Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa__ __Waldensian Church__
 * WCC-List of Member Churches**:

**What about your faith?**
 * Alright, Now we know we are not alone in our faith.**

**Individual Faith Questions** **Which of the following is more important to you regarding faith, please choose only one**
 * 1) **Glory or Grace?**
 * 2) **Evangilism or Ecumenism?**
 * 3) **Faith or Love?**
 * 4) **Love or Hope?**
 * 5) **Hope or Faith?**
 * 6) **Virtue or Wisdom?**
 * 7) **Compassion or Mercy?**
 * 8) **Religious crusader or minister**
 * 9) **Preacher or minister**
 * 10) **leader or follower**
 * 11) **Individual or member of a group**

**What do you think is the greatest commandment?**

**Do you think other religions besides christianity have principles similar to love thy neighbor as thyself?**

**Now, what is your view of heaven.** **Is it a place you go to when you die because you led a life of the righteous?** **Is it the Grace of participating in the Divine Nature?** **Is it a paradise after you die?** **Kingdom of Heaven upon us?** **Eternal Life?** **What is your view of Heaven?**

**Should we approach our problem using one of the principles above?** **Which ones will be most important in our approach?**

**My Faith and My Responses in My Journal During This Project** 7/15/11

First, I believe Love needs to be used as a litmus when considering if something is morally or ethically sound in our tecno world. I mean the love for our fellows, the greatest commandment, love one another, love thy neighbor as thyself. If I am in doubt as to which direction a techno issue is headed, I will use this as the test. Karma, is also very similar to this, and I imagine their are other similar concepts in many of the worlds cultures and religions.

Secondly, oh well I think that's enough don't you?

In case you have not noticed, I feel it necessary to not view the world from a Christian-centric perspective, especially since we are a minority on the planet and this world wide web will soon be sporting translation software for free.

Journal on humans!

Peace out.

patrick

7/19/11

OK, I have heard some feedback on my comment about not viewing the world from a Christian-centric persective.

Please allow me to explain a bit more about what I mean. Everyone has their faith, and or their religion.

Is yours any more right than mine or vice versa? Is your faith the one true faith? Your God the one true god? Many of us believe this. Does this mean the other person is wrong or should be judged on this basis?

In the spirit of love and ecumenism, I submit that we one can and probably should be Christ centered in their faith, if they are Christian, but if a particular faith insists that their perspective needs to be followed or adopted by everyone else, where is the love? Where is the greatest commandant in action, love thy neighbor as thyself. If we are centric at all, how are we doing unto others what we would have them do unto us?

The popular and notable author of the late 19th century, Henry Drummond, proposes a treatise on love, and it's importance in relation to all the other important things like the faith and hope that Paul writes about in the New Testament.

[We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-note for centuries of the popular religion; and we have easily learned to look upon it as the greatest thing in the world. Well, we are wrong. If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. I have taken you, in the chapter which I have just read, to Christianity at its source; and there we have seen, "The greatest of these is love." It is not an oversight. Paul was speaking of faith just a moment before. He says, "If I have all faith, so that I can remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing. "So far from forgetting, he deliberately contrasts them, "Now abideth Faith, Hope, Love," and without a moment's hesitation, the decision falls, "The greatest of these is Love."]

I think Henry Drummond would use Love as a litmus for our moral and ethical dilemmas on the internet and he would have faith and hope that things would work themselves out, and not try to control others. I believe that a "Centric" person, of any kind, is not loving their fellow man, they are imposing their will on them in a selfish from and this is not love.

I believe we may be called to live our faith and offer hope and most of all to love, but we are not called to live others faith and hope for them. This is what I meant by being cautious of the word Christian-Centric Perspective.

Lovingly submitted,

Patrick

**The Regulation Approach** **Should we approach todays cyber problems like the leader of France** **THE INTERNET should be regulated to curb its immoral excesses, according to Nicolas Sarkozy, who made the statement on a visit to the Pope.**

**"There's no liberty without rules. The law of the jungle, survival of the fittest, the most cynical, it's contrary to the values of liberté, egalité, fraternité, it's counter to civilisation," said the president while at the Vatican.**

**Sarkozy has already talked of regulating the internet. In January, he called for a global strategy to "clean up the network", including the use of filtering tools.**

__[|**http://www.connexionfrance.com/Sarkozy-control-internet-immorality-pope-12150-view-article.html**]__

**Reflections....**

**Conclusions........**

**References**

**Schultze, Quentin J.,** __**Habits of the High-Tech Heart: Living Virtously in the Information Age**__

__[|**http://www.connexionfrance.com/Sarkozy-control-internet-immorality-pope-12150-view-article.html**]__

**Drummond, Henry,** __**The Greatest Thing in the World,**__

__**World Council of Churches**__ __[|**http://www.oikoumene.org/en/who-are-we.html**]__

__**United Nations**__ __[|**http://www.un.org/events/humanrights/udhr60/declaration.shtml**]__