Digital Prostitution

In reality this is a repost from a savage comment I left on a post that I saw on Social Media. Yes, I have been studying prostitution and whores in the Bible recently. I've done so because I've seen so many in the news lately.

Nahum 3:1-5 ~ ....many casualties, piles of dead, bodies without number, people stumbling over the corpses—all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute, alluring, the mistress of sorceries, who enslaved nations by her prostitution and peoples by her witchcraft. “I am against you,” declares the Lord Almighty.

Social media and the Internet in general are kind of like surrogate prostitution and we're all caught in their side hustle. Nahum 3 is referring to Nineveh (of Jonah fame) in this passage. It is a warning to a people that devastation was coming because of wanton immoral behaviors and pursuing sin with no guilt. Nineveh in Assyria had played the prostitute often by luring unsuspecting people to Nineveh and then harming or killing them through violence/sin. How?

The Ninevites were practitioners of sorcery; they appealed to the powers of the world (and beyond) for power to control their destiny and that of their victims instead of turning to the True God. Acknowledging anything as god other than God is to be essentially godless as all other gods are non-god or false gods. It is a violation of the 1st Commandment. Just as today we are a godless society. Sorcery in the Hebrew in this passage is כָּשַׁף/kashaph which can also mean to 'whisper a chant'. Chants or mumblings over and over as pagans did. A repetitive behavior that draws you in over and over...like a scroll bar that continues to feed you data and information. Enticing you. Enchanting you. Pulling you farther away from God. Farther into darkness. Like the Internet. An addiction. Just like a drug...which just happens to be the other implication of the word sorcery. Sorcery translated from Greek is φαρμακεία/pharmakeia which means drugs, particularly mind-altering.  

Mind-numbing ritual.... like the way social media and the internet sucks people in because of their addictive nature. Specifically engineered to keep people engaged (prostituted out). As we can see by recent actions, companies like Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc. are not so much companies anymore but more akin to sovereign nations immune to the rules of the lands that they have invaded (like Assyria) under the guise of capitalism and free trade. Just as the false Gods eventually permeated Israel and Judah. By the time of King Ahaz he had already made up his mind to go to Assyria (2 Kings 16:7-9). This meant that Ahaz and Judah became vassals of Assyria and also subordinated themselves to the gods of Assyria.

Once these false gods are entrenched like a parasite they are impossible to remove because they become symbiotic to host nations. They are a spiritual disorder in a physical kingdom. We are not fighting Assyria, Facebook or physical ideologies as we are fighting a spiritual war.

So since they mostly remain hidden just under the surface few understand the real damage they are causing to the spiritual/intellectual infrastructure of a nation. Assyria, Israel, America….it doesn’t matter. The effect is the same...destruction. So the host nations allow them to continue to feed off of the government (taxpayers) and make deals with them. They in turn are aided by parasitic legacy financial systems (banks) and media organizations (CNN, ABC, PBS, FOX) which in reality are dying due to the new addiction to better technologies that are obsoleting them. All the while your elected politicians prostitute you to these mega-corporations like pimps. Old lecherous systems of money and legacy news. You’re nothing more than a cheap whore for the old systems as the next generation become demeaned by newer digital platforms like Snapchat, TikTok and MeWe.

In the same way Tech Giants become idols and the objects of pagan worship just as the Assyrians were involved in occultism, sexual perversion, and human degradation. Just like the internet allows now. Facebook like other corporations lured people in. Assyria had lured nations, then, with immoral attractions. The same as today. It just comes through a new medium of communication.

These practices both during the reign of Assyria and also now in the Information Age results in the enslavement of many nations and people groups either spiritually, physically or like we see in the Internet or via politically in the left right paradigm...which is done mentally. Assyria, Nineveh (then). Now...Facebook, Google, Twitter have sold us into digital slavery. We're all slaves. The sooner we realize we're addicted whores and the sooner we can break the addiction.