People WANT to cheat; technology has nothing to do with it. I will admit that the Internet has made it easier for adulterers to hook up, but it also makes it just as easy to get caught so it balances.

Wandering spouses did not have to wait for Al Gore to invent the Internet to get their groove on. They have been straying throughout time. Adam and Eve were probably the only absolutely secure marriage in all Human History!

The Bible itself is chock full of examples of marital infidelity, most notably King David and Bathsheba. David had plenty of beautiful wives yet he got so hot for the bathing Bathsheba he had her husband murdered to get her. If God's favored son had a problem then any of us can.

Another quick aside: in the early books of the Bible, you see these things called the Poles of Asherah in the camp. They were not supposed to be there but kept popping up again and again. It took a little research but it was clear why people liked them.

The poles of Asherah were related to a pagan goddess common to the Canaanite Region. Ignoring the rules and rituals of that religion, the key attraction was the practice of the pole. A person desiring guilt-free sex would touch the pole. Any person passing by was free to engage in sex with sort of a free pass for the night until dawn. Sort of a combination pickup bar/Internet porn site.

In fact, if you look at every technological advance in history, the second use of it has been to find new fields of adulterous opportunity. Horses got you to the whorehouse; telephones turned to phone sex, even cars have been perverted. It was the second most popular place for children to be conceived until someone created the motel.

So don't blame the Internet for infidelity. It is just another tool to make life easier and more efficient. The fact that it can be perverted for nefarious purposes can't be blamed on the tool. It is out of the hearts of men (and women) that evil comes forth.

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