Bloke who claims to represent God tells us Social Media is not real

Pope Francis worries about the kiddies

A bloke who claims to represent God on earth and represents an organisation which promises to get you into a mystical city made out of gold when you die has told kids that social networks give them a false image of reality.

Pope Francis has urged young people to resist the “false image of reality” portrayed by social media and reality TV shows and take charge of their own destiny.

As part of his video message for World Youth Day, the pontiff said people who say young people are “distracted and superficial” are wrong.

“In the social media, we see faces of your people appearing in any number of pictures recounting more or less real events, but we don’t know how much of all this is really ‘history,’ an experience that can be communicated and endowed with purpose and meaning.”

He said that television is filled with reality shows that are “not real stories”, but simply “moments passed before a television camera by characters living from day to day, without a greater plan.”

“Don’t let yourselves be led astray by this false image of reality, Be the protagonists of your history; decide your own future.”

We guess he means that we should follow a collection of folk stories, mostly myths, which was compiled by his processors to impose a unified reality on a divulging religion which was more often at each other’s throats.

This is not the first time that Pope Francis has had a pop at social media and technology. Last year he told kids to stop becoming “couch potatoes” and instead swap their sofas, video games and computer screens for social activism.

Pope Francis is 80 and thinks that it is wrong to put memories in a hard drive.

“Nor can be archive everything in some sort of virtual ‘cloud.’ We need to learn how to make past events a dynamic reality on which to reflect and to draw lessons and meaning for the present and the future.”

Imagine what would happen if people took that literally.