Beware: Catholic Mission in Second Life!

I didn´t get into this Second Life thing since I´m already too busy with my real life and with internet tools like blog, gmail, myspace, skype, msn and so on. (and this is too much already in my opinion). By the way it seems people have nothing better to do than try to find some reason for their boring civilized lives through an artificial one in the cyberspace. In Second Life you can choose a new name, another gender, an avatar (your face in Second Life language)and so on. You can play the God character here and play your own (second) life the way you think it should be, as far as I understood. Whaterver today morning I was reading some news at the BBC Brasil and something catched my attention: the news that Society of Jesuits calls missionaries to Second Life. A Father Antonio Spadaro has written an article about that in the italian jesuit Journal "La Civilta Cattolica", whose contents are approved by the Vatican. Among other things what really impressed me was this sentence:"Deep down, the digital world can be considered, in its way, mission territory," he said. "Second Life is somewhere where the opportunity to meet people and to grow should not be missed, therefore, any initiative that can inspire the residents in a positive way should be considered opportune." I wonder why do the hell these f*#@&* jesuits d´ont sell their own laptops in order to support starving human beings in Africa and Latin America for example? ( No need to say that the poverty and misery of these people is also directly related to the colonialism and inclusively to these jesuits missions, that in God´s name have exterminated and destroyed great civilizations and millions of lives in both continents, isn´t it?)