The Bible says that if something causes you to sin, whether it’s your eye or hand or foot, that you should cut it off, because it’s better to be blinded or lame and going to Heaven than to have all your parts and end up going to Hell. That’s why the Reverend Cedric Miller, pastor of the Living Word Christian Fellowship Church, has issued a strange request of his flock. Reverend Miller has asked the married couples in his Neptune, New Jersey, congregation to delete their Facebook accounts.
Of course, Rev. Miller has a very good reason for this. To him, and to a lot of people, Facebook is a tool for cheating, so he’s asking his congregation to delete the temptation and delete Facebook from their lives. Reverend Miller, who uses Facebook to keep up with his six children, said the deletion will start with himself.
“I’ve been in extended counseling with couples with marital problems because of Facebook for the last year and a half,” said Rev. Miller. “What happens is someone from yesterday surfaces, it leads to conversations and there have been physical meet-ups. The temptation is just too great. The advice will go to the entire church. They’ll hear what I’m asking of my church leadership. I won’t mandate it for the entire congregation, but I hope people will follow my advice.”
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