Evangelicals to fight porn and save souls through Second Life

I saw this article earlier this week but haven't had the chance to properly say... WHAT WHAT?

Antonio Spadaro, writing an article in the Jesuit journal La Civilta Cattolica, said that Second Life, an online simulation game with 8 million viewers; is a ‘mission territory’ to find new converts and should be considered an opportunity for the Church, reported Reuters.

"Deep down, the digital world can be considered, in its way, mission territory," he said...

Despite the enormous opportunities opened up by the digital world to bring people to Christ, the biggest danger on the web that is frequently identified by Christians is pornography with its most vulnerable victims being young men.

Second Life has long been an outlet for sexuality that may or may not be expressed in real life. And since Second Life has offered many users a risk and commitment-free environment with which to try out different fetishes and sexual identities, it makes sense that there would be an explosion of diversity in sexual expression. It's also not surprising that evangelicals would want to try to save some souls.

And that's totally cool with me, as long as they aren't using false information to proselytize and are open to letting users go if they say no. The presence of evangelicals could enhance the debate and conversation on Second Life and elsewhere. It's also possible that conducting the porn debate through computers would make the conversation more honest and productive than it would be in the confession booth.